Cultural differences in the health information environments and practices between Finnish and Japanese university students;Las diferencias culturales en los entornos de información sanitaria y prácticas entre los estudiantes universitarios finlandés y japonés

Information Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Askola, Kreetta ^a   Atsushi, Toshimori ^a   Huotari, Maija Leena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

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