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Public Health (158) Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making (636) Information Retrieval (271) Information Seeking, Information Needs (421)

Published on in Vol 6, No 2 (2017): Jul-Dec

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/7000, first published .
How, When and Why People Seek Health Information Online: Qualitative Study in Hong Kong

How, When and Why People Seek Health Information Online: Qualitative Study in Hong Kong

How, When and Why People Seek Health Information Online: Qualitative Study in Hong Kong

Authors of this article:

Joanna TW Chu1 Author Orcid Image ;   Man Ping Wang2 Author Orcid Image ;   Chen Shen3 Author Orcid Image ;   Kasisomayajula Viswanath4, 5 Author Orcid Image ;   Tai Hing Lam6 Author Orcid Image ;   Sophia Siu Chee Chan2 Author Orcid Image
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Joanna TW Chu   1 , PhD ;   Man Ping Wang   2 , PhD ;   Chen Shen   3 , PhD ;   Kasisomayajula Viswanath   4, 5 , PhD ;   Tai Hing Lam   6 , MD ;   Sophia Siu Chee Chan   2 , PhD

1 National Institute for Health Innovation, School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

2 School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

3 School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

4 Center for Community-Based Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States

5 Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, United States

6 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Corresponding Author:

  • Tai Hing Lam, MD
  • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  • Imperial College London
  • London
  • United Kingdom
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  • Email: hrmrlth@hku.hk