Designing e-health interventions for low-health-literate culturally diverse parents: Addressing the obesity epidemic

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 672-677

  MacKert, Michael ^a   Kahlor, Leeann ^a   Tyler, Diane ^a   Gustafson, Jamie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

E health; Low literate parents; Obesity; Telehealth

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NUTRITION; SEARCH ENGINES; WEB CRAWLER; WEBSITES;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; E HEALTH; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; INFORMATION PROVIDER; LOW LITERATES; OBESITY; TELEHEALTH; UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS;

HEALTH;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERNET; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PARENT; PARENTING EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEARCH ENGINE; TELEHEALTH;

EID: 70349240656     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2009.0012     Document Type: Article

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