Regional HIV/AIDS Information Environments and Information Acquisition Success

Information Society

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 88-112

  Veinot, Tiffany C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to information; Community informatics; Health informatics; HIV AIDS; Information behavior; Information environments; Rural communities; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878258201     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2012.757261     Document Type: Article

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