Digital health interventions: Widening access or widening inequalities?

Public Health

Volumn 128, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1118-1120

  McAuley, A ^a  

^a NHS HEALTH SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIGITAL COMPUTER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOBILE PHONE; PATIENT EDUCATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WELLBEING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; INTERNET; PROCEDURES; SOCIOECONOMICS;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84919653625     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: 14765616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2014.10.008     Document Type: Article

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