Connecting communities of need with public health: Can SMS text-messaging improve outreach communication?

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gomez, Elizabeth Avery ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities of need; Culture; Emergency response; Mobile technology; Public health; SMS text messaging

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITIES OF NEED; CULTURE; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMS TEXT-MESSAGING;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 51449119119     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.99     Document Type: Conference Paper

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