Cancer information seeking behaviors and information needs among Korean Americans

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 201, Issue , 2014, Pages 401-406

  Park, Hyejin ^a   Park, Min Sook ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to information; Consumer health information; Information seeking behavior; Korean American's cancer information; Online health information seeking; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; DIAGNOSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION USE; NURSING;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIORS; KOREAN AMERICAN'S CANCER INFORMATION; ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION; WEB 2.0;

DISEASES;

ASIAN AMERICAN; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; KOREA; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ASIAN AMERICANS; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; KOREA; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84903736125     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-415-2-401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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