What young people want from health-related online resources: a focus group study

Journal of Youth Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 579-596

  Fergie, Gillian ^a   Hunt, Kate ^a   Hilton, Shona ^a  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

health; Internet; leisure; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880349559     PISSN: 13676261     EISSN: 14699680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2012.744811     Document Type: Article

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