Searching for health information in rural Canada. Where do residents look for health information and what do they do when they find it?

Information Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Harris, Roma M ^a   Wathen, C Nadine ^b   Fear, Jana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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