The defining characteristics of Web 2.0 and their potential influence in the online vaccination debate

Vaccine

Volumn 30, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 3734-3740

  Witteman, Holly O ^a,b   Zikmund Fisher, Brian J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributes; Decision making; Immunization; Information quality; Internet; Network effects; Online communities; Openness; User participation; Vaccination; Web 2.0; Web attributes

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONLINE MONITORING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; VACCINATION; WEB BROWSER;

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; SOCIAL MEDIA; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 84861005938     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.12.039     Document Type: Article

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