Literacy disparities in patient access and health-related use of Internet and mobile technologies

Health Expectations

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3079-3087

  Bailey, Stacy C ^a   O'Conor, Rachel ^b   Bojarski, Elizabeth A ^b   Mullen, Rebecca ^b   Patzer, Rachel E ^c,d   Vicencio, Daniel ^e   Jacobson, Kara L ^d   Parker, Ruth M ^c   Wolf, Michael S ^b  

^a University of North Carolina   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MERCY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Health disparities; Health information technology; Health literacy

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; SMARTPHONE; TEXT MESSAGING; UTILIZATION;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; SMARTPHONE; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84954522345     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hex.12294     Document Type: Article

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