Health information seeking
By: J. David Johnson, Donald O. Case
Contributors: Case, Donald Owen
Series: Health communication -- v. 4; Health communication (New York, N.Y.) -- v. 4.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781433118258; 9781433118241; 9781453908792
Subjects: Consumer Health Information; Health; Information services; Information Seeking Behavior; Health Communication; Information retrieval
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Information fields and carriers; title: Socio-psychological factors in health; title: Information carriers : a focus on channel selection and usage; title: Models of information seeking; title: Outcomes of information seeking; title: Strategies for seekers (and non seekers); title: Strategies for health professionals; title: Summing up : information seeking in the information age.