The profession of public health informatics: Still emerging?

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 375-385

  Araujo, John ^a   Pepper, Catherine ^b   Richards, Janise ^c   Choi, Mona ^d   Xing, Jian ^c   Li, Wei ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CDC   (United States)

^d Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Professional autonomy; Professional education; Public health informatics; Sociology

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RATES; CORE-SETS; MEDLINE; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; PUBLICATION RATES; SOCIOLOGY; SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE; SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS;

HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

BIBLIOMETRICS; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 64549132084     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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