Analyzing health organizations' use of twitter for promoting health literacy

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 410-425

  Park, Hyojung ^a   Rodgers, Shelly ^b   Stemmle, Jon ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION; SCHOOL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMMERCE; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNET; ORGANIZATIONS; ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT; SCHOOLS; UNITED STATES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875363885     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2012.727956     Document Type: Article

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