Language preferences on websites and in google searches for human health and food information

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Singh, Punam Mony ^a   Wight, Carly A ^b   Sercinoglu, Olcan ^c   Wilson, David C ^b   Boytsov, Artem ^c   Raizada, Manish N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian flu; Food security; Google; Health; Immigrant; Indigenous; Internet; Language; Linguistic; Maize; Nutrition; Schizophrenia; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BANGLADESH; FOOD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MAIZE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH; ONLINE SYSTEM; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEARCH ENGINE; TUBERCULOSIS; WEB BROWSER; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

FOOD; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; TERMINOLOGY; TRANSLATING;

EID: 34447623386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.9.2.e18     Document Type: Article

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