Why people trust in online health communities: An integrated approach

ACIS 2010 Proceedings - 21st Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Fan, Hanmei ^a   Smith, Stephen P ^a   Lederman, Reeva ^b   Chang, Shanton ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health; Online Community; Trust

Indexed keywords

FORMATION MODEL; INTEGRATED APPROACH; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PERSONAL INFORMATION; TRUST;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

HEALTH;

EID: 84870387851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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