Diaries in health promotion research: The Mobile Information Bus evaluation

Health Education

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 304-313

  Wyness, Laura ^a   Douglas, Flora ^a   Van Teijlingen, Edwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health education; Personal health; Records management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992978627     PISSN: 09654283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09654280410560550     Document Type: Article

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