A survey of public health and consumer health informatics programmes and courses in Canadian universities and colleges

Informatics for Health and Social Care

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 242-252

  Arocha, Jose F ^a   Hoffman Goetz, Laurie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Consumer health informatics; Education programmes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY;

CANADA; CURRICULUM; HUMANS; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84870689329     PISSN: 17538157     EISSN: 17538165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17538157.2011.647937     Document Type: Review

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