Users and non-users of web-based health advice service among Finnish university students - Chronic conditions and self-reported health status (a cross-sectional study)

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Castrén, Johanna ^a,b,c   Huttunen, Teppo ^d   Kunttu, Kristina ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Finnish Student Health Service   (Finland)

^c PIRKANMAA HOSPITAL DISTRICT   (Finland)

^d 4Pharma Ltd   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACNE; ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DENTAL CARIES; DEPRESSION; DERMATOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EAR NOSE THROAT DISEASE; EATING DISORDER; EPILEPSY; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNET; KIDNEY DISEASE; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIGRAINE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; REFRACTION ERROR; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THYROID DISEASE; TOOTH INFECTION; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; WEB BROWSER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FINLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 40349114239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-8     Document Type: Article

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