---
title: "Crowdsourcing a Survey: Health Topics"
description: "The New York Times quoted our data in an article entitled Logging On for a Second (or Third) Opinion. We happen to be preparing our next health..."
date: "2008-10-01"
authors:
  - name: "Susannah Fox"
    job_title: "Former Researcher"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/susannah-fox/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2008/10/01/crowdsourcing-a-survey-health-topics-2/"
categories:
  - "Health Care"
  - "Health Policy"
  - "Healthcare Online"
  - "Medicine & Health"
---

# Crowdsourcing a Survey: Health Topics

The Pew Internet Project will conduct a national telephone survey this fall about the internet's impact on health and health care. One of the first tasks is to look at our tried and true "trend" questions and decide which ones we should repeat as is and which ones need to be updated.

The first question I would like to consider is the "screener" question which yields our estimate that 80% of internet users go online for health information.

Please join the conversation at e-patients.net.