Internet access and online cancer information seeking among latino immigrants from safety net clinics

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 58-70

  Selsky, Claire ^a   Luta, George ^b   Noone, Anne Michelle ^b   Huerta, Elmer E ^c   Mandelblatt, Jeanne S ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872470690     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2012.688248     Document Type: Article

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