E-health literacy and health information seeking behavior Among University Students in Bangladesh

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 245, Issue , 2017, Pages 122-125

  Islam, Md Mohaimenul ^a   Touray, Musa ^a   Yang, Hsuan Chia ^a   Poly, Tahmina Nasrin ^b   Nguyen, Phung Anh ^a   Li, Yu Chuan ^a   Abdul, Shabbir Syed ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cross sectional studies; Health literacy; Social media

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EHEALTH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION USE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; HEALTH LITERACY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RANDOM SAMPLE; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; RANDOM SAMPLE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA; STUDENT T TEST; TELEHEALTH; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85040510609     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-830-3-122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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