American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Volume 32, Issue 5, Supplement , Pages S97-S103 , May 2007

eHealth Research from the User’s Perspective

  • Bradford W. Hesse, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence and reprint requests to: Bradford W. Hesse, PhD, National Cancer Institute, 6130 Executive Blvd., MSC 7365, Bethesda MD 20892-7365.
    • ,
  • Ben Shneiderman, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

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