What do web-use skill differences imply for online health information searches?

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Feufel, Markus A ^a   Stahl, S Frederica ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer literacy; Digital divide; Human factors; Information retrieval; Information seeking behavior; Patient education handout; Public access to information

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MALE;

COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER LITERACY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MALE;

EID: 84864237785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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