Media Use and Health Information Seeking: An Empirical Test of Complementarity Theory

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Health Communication

• Publication date

  2008-04-03

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1080/10410230801968260PMID 18444004
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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