Quality of online health information about oral contraceptives from Hebrew-language websites

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Neumark, Yehuda ^a   Flum, Lior ^a   Lopez Quintero, Catalina ^a   Shtarkshall, Ronny ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Content analyses; Hebrew; Internet; Online health information; Oral contraceptives; Quality

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84910081982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20454015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2045-4015-1-38     Document Type: Article

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