| Online Health Search 2006
Fox, Susannah
Pew Internet & American Life Project, October 29, 2006, online edition, 22p
According to this new report, eighty percent of U.S. internet users, or roughly 113 million adults, have searched for information on at least one of the seventeen health topics listed in the study. Most internet users start at a search engine when looking for health information online. Very few check the source and date of the information they find. Three percent of health seekers, or about 3 million adults, say they or someone they know has been seriously harmed by following the advice or information they found online. Fully 31% of health seekers, or about 35 million adults, say they or someone they know has been significantly helped by following medical advice or health information found on the internet.
Go to the report at:
http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2006/PIP_Online_Health_2006.pdf.pdf
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