Socioeconomic and geographic disparities in health information seeking and internet use in Puerto Rico

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Rutten, Lila J Finney ^a   Hesse, Bradford W ^b   Moser, Richard P ^b   Martinez, Ana Patricia Ortiz ^c   Kornfeld, Julie ^d   Vanderpool, Robin C ^e   Byrne, Margaret ^f   Luna, Guillermo Tortolero ^c  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer information seeking; Disparities; Geographic trends; Health information seeking; Internet use; Special populations

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PUERTO RICO; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PUERTO RICO; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872388360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2007     Document Type: Article

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