Understanding public users' adoption of mobile health service

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 351-373

  Deng, Zhaohua ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

HBM; Health belief model; Mobile communications; Mobile health service; Perceived service availability; TAM; Technology acceptance model

Indexed keywords

HBM; HEALTH BELIEF MODEL; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE HEALTH; SERVICE AVAILABILITY; TAM; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL;

HEALTH;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84882346571     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: 17415217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2013.055748     Document Type: Article

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