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Digital Health Reviews (3834) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (2721) Participatory Medicine & E-Patients (1006) Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making (1301) eHealth Literacy / Digital Literacy (923) Information Retrieval (499) Information Seeking, Information Needs (663)

Published on in Vol 27 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/70379, first published .
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Exploring Online Health Information–Seeking Behavior Among Young Adults: Scoping Review

Exploring Online Health Information–Seeking Behavior Among Young Adults: Scoping Review

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