Computer use, internet access, and online health searching among Harlem adults

American Journal of Health Promotion

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 325-333

  Cohall, Alwyn T ^a   Nye, Andrea ^a   Moon Howard, Joyce ^a   Kukafka, Rita ^a   Dye, Bonnie ^a   Vaughan, Roger D ^a   Northridge, Mary E ^a  

^a Harlem Health Promotion Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Health Education; Health Promotion; Media; Prevention Research; Race Ethnicity; Urban Health

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ONLINE SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMPUTERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEPHONE; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961161334     PISSN: 08901171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4278/ajhp.090325-QUAN-121     Document Type: Article

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