Questioning context: A set of interdisciplinary questions for investigating contextual factors affecting health decision making

Health Expectations

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-132

  Charise, Andrea ^a   Witteman, Holly ^a,b   Whyte, Sarah ^a,c   Sutton, Erica J ^a   Bender, Jacqueline L ^a   Massimi, Michael ^a   Stephens, Lindsay ^a   Evans, Joshua ^a,d   Logie, Carmen ^a   Mirza, Raza M ^a   Elf, Marie ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^f DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contextual factors; Health decision making; Interdisciplinary; Non medical factors; Preference sensitive

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CANADA; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERNET; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 79956194416     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00618.x     Document Type: Article

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