The digital divide: Examining socio-demographic factors associated with health literacy, access and use of internet to seek health information
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Investigating the Correlation of Access to the Internet/ Computer System and Information Literacy
Background: Formerly in societies, literacy only implied reading and writing skills. Gradually, the industrial 20th century turned into the information era of the 21st century. Accordingly, to survive in the present world, we need to have information literacy. Acquiring information technology (IT) is an indispensable part of literacy. The current research aims to investigate the correlation of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Health Psychology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1359-1053,1461-7277
DOI: 10.1177/1359105317695429