European citizens' use of E-health services: A study of seven countries

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Andreassen, Hege K ^a   Bujnowska Fedak, Maria M ^b   Chronaki, Catherine E ^c   Dumitru, Roxana C ^d   Pudule, Iveta ^e   Santana, Silvina ^f   Voss, Henning ^g   Wynn, Rolf ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e Health Promotion Centre   (Latvia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^g Danish Centre for Health Telematics   (Denmark)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DENMARK; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; GERMANY; GREECE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; LATVIA; NORWAY; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; POLAND; POPULATION RESEARCH; PORTUGAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TELEPHONE; WHITE COLLAR WORKER; ADULT; AGE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TELEMEDICINE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERVIEWS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 34247516788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-53     Document Type: Article

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