Sources and reasons for seeking health information by lithuanian adults

Medicina (Lithuania)

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 371-378

  Maraziene, Daiva ^a   Klumbiene, Jurate ^a   Tomkevičiute, Jurate ^a   Misevičiene, Irena ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Health information; Sources and reasons for seeking health information; Trust in the sources of information about health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872586878     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina48070055     Document Type: Article

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