The creation of social value: Can an online health community reduce rural-urban health disparities?

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 247-263

  Goh, Jie Mein ^a   Gao, Guodong Gordon ^b   Agarwal, Ritu ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Healthcare; Online communities; Social network; Social value

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; HEALTH CARE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DISPARITIES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPONENTIAL RANDOM GRAPH MODEL; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE HEALTH COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL VALUES; URBAN HEALTH;

HEALTH;

EID: 84961827136     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2016/40.1.11     Document Type: Article

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