Telephone survey methods: implications of the increasing mobile‐only population for public health research

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 491-492

  Newman, Lareen ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TELEPHONE;

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TELEPHONE;

EID: 83155181952     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: 17536405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2011.00763.x     Document Type: Letter

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