Vicious cycles: Digital technologies and determinants of health in Australia

Health Promotion International

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 349-360

  Baum, Fran ^a,b   Newman, Lareen ^a   Biedrzycki, Katherine ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

digital exclusion; health equity; ICTs; social determinants of health

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUSTRALIA; COMPUTERS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MALE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84900803024     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: 14602245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/das062     Document Type: Review

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