A prompt to the web: The media and health information seeking behaviour

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Hogue, Marie Clare B ^a,b   Doran, Evan ^a   Henry, David A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b Hunter Valley Research Foundation   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRESCRIPTION; ADOLESCENT; DISEASES; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859243908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034314     Document Type: Article

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