The digital divide at an urban community health center: Implications for quality improvement and health care access

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 456-460

  Denizard Thompson, Nancy M ^b   Feiereisel, Kirsten B ^b   Stevens, Sheila F ^a,b   Miller, David P ^b   Wofford, James L ^b  

^a Downtown Health Plaza Adult Medicine Clinic ^*  (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude to computers; Community health centers statistics and numerical data; Computers utilization; Consumer health information methods; Internet utilization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE PHONE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; CELLULAR PHONE; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SEX FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956134400     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-010-9327-5     Document Type: Article

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