How the public uses social media wechat to obtain health information in China: A survey study

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 17, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Zhang, Xingting ^a   Wen, Dong ^a   Liang, Jun ^b   Lei, Jianbo ^a,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c SOUTHWEST MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Health education; Health information acquisition; Social media; WeChat

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; CHINA; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PROFESSIONALISM; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL MEDIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHINA; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL MEDIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85021711601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-017-0470-0     Document Type: Article

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