Identity and the health information consumer: a research agenda

Health Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-5

  Morgan, Allison J ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

demographics; diabetes; health information; identity; individual differences; information search

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015981147     PISSN: 20476965     EISSN: 20476973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/hs.2015.1     Document Type: Article

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