Profiles of 800,000 users of the national cancer institute's cancer information service since the debut of online assistance, 2003-2008

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Bush, Nigel ^a   Vanderpool, Robin ^b   Cofta Woerpel, Ludmila ^c   Wallace, Phyllis ^d  

^a National Center for Telehealth and Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; E-MAIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; MALE; NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (U.S.); ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952298283     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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