Looking Beyond the Internet: Examining Socioeconomic Inequalities in Cancer Information Seeking Among Cancer Patients

Health Communication

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 806-817

  Lee, Chul joo ^a   Ramírez, A Susana ^b   Lewis, Nehama ^c   Gray, Stacy W ^d   Hornik, Robert C ^e  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COLON TUMOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; MALE; NEOPLASM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84865230334     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2011.647621     Document Type: Article

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