Information behaviour, health self-efficacy beliefs and health behaviour in Icelanders' everyday life

Information Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Pálsdóttir, Ágústa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

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