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It is found that the effective way to promote health education to the mass is with the support of technology and such in the case is by using online health information service which is similarly to the Web-based health information service. The main highlight of the article is regarding the Web-based health information service that has been created particularly to educate the health consumers regarding health issues. Meanwhile, the ultimate objective of this paper is to address the demand for a national study on health consumers’ intention to use a Web-based health information service. The paper also offered some views on the statement of problems regarding the intended topic and provided further justification on why the study should be conducted. Some pertinent recommendations with regard to the issue are also discussed.
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Mohd Tobi, S.N., Masrom, M., Mohammed, A. (2018). The 11th Malaysia Health Plan: Demand for Investigation on Health Consumers’ Intention Toward National Web-Based Health Information Service. In: Noordin, F., Othman, A., Kassim, E. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd Advances in Business Research International Conference. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6053-3_8
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