Health information-seeking behaviour on the Internet and health literacy among older Australians

Electronic Journal of Health Informatics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Lam, Mary K ^a   Lam, Lawrence T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged; Health information seeking; Health literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867739562     PISSN: 14464381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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