Social work informatics: A new specialty

Social Work

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 127-134

  Parker Oliver, Debra ^a   Demiris, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers in social work; Practice; Social work informatics; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747618446     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/51.2.127     Document Type: Article

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