Social health inequalities and eHealth: A literature review with qualitative synthesis of theoretical and empirical studies

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Latulippe, Karine ^a   Hamel, Christine ^a   Giroux, Dominique ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Healthcare disparities; Internet; Social media; Telemedecine

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; DIGITAL DIVIDE; EMPIRICISM; ENGLAND; ETHNICITY; EXTRACT; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; LITERACY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REST; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOFTWARE; SYNTHESIS; TELEHEALTH; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNIVERSITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELEMEDICINE; UTILIZATION;

COMPUTER LITERACY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 85018776546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.6731     Document Type: Review

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