Bridging the triple divide: Performance and innovative multimedia in the service of behavioural health change in remote Indigenous settings

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Hunter, Ernest ^a   Travers, Helen ^a   Gibson, Julie ^a   Campion, Jonathan ^b  

^a Health Interactive Technology Network   (Australia)

^b Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health Queensland   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioural health; Indigenous; Interactive technology; Performance; Touchscreen

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MULTIMEDIA;

AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MULTIMEDIA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 36348963004     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: 14401665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10398560701701197     Document Type: Article

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