Health practitioners' and health planners' information needs and seeking behavior for decision making in Uganda

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 75, Issue 10-11, 2006, Pages 714-721

  Kapiriri, Lydia ^a   Bondy, Susan J ^b  

^a at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

^b TORONTO PUBLIC HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health information seeking behavior; Health planners; Health practitioners; Uganda

Indexed keywords

HEALTH INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PLANNERS; HEALTH PRACTITIONERS; UGANDA;

DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ASPECT; UGANDA;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; UGANDA;

EID: 33749336201     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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