Use of information and communication technology to provide health information: What do older migrants know, and what do they need to know?

Quality in Primary Care

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-32

  Goodall, Ken ^a   Ward, Paul ^a   Newman, Lareen ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functional knowledge; Information; Older migrants

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ETHNOLOGY; GREECE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ITALY; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; MOBILE PHONE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; AUSTRALIA; CELLULAR PHONE; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GREECE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ITALY; LANGUAGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77951178537     PISSN: 14791072     EISSN: 14791064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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