Do resources of network members help in help seeking? Social capital and health information search

Social Networks

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 658-669

  Song, Lijun ^a   Chang, Tian Yun ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health information search; Network members' resources; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872372252     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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