Acceptability of delivering and accessing health information through text messaging among community health advisors

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Schoenberger, Yu Mei ^a   Phillips, Janice ^a   Mohiuddin, Mohammed Omar ^a   McNees, Patrick ^b,c   Scarinci, Isabel ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c Kirchner Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Community health workers; Mobile health; Text messaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 85079151295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.2641     Document Type: Article

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