Social media for health communication: Implementation issues and challenges for italian public health authorities

Social Media and Mobile Technologies for Healthcare

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 237-263

  Cioni, Elisabetta ^a   Lovari, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

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EID: 84949760625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6150-9.ch014     Document Type: Chapter

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