Health Sites: Some Are More Equal Than Others
Search is central to health information gathering. Now search sites are guiding consumers to safe, trusted health websites. Is that such a bad thing?
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Internet and Technology
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Federal Agencies: First Responders to Health Questions
Susannah Fox will provide data on the current internet population, with a particular focus on health communication, wireless adoption, social media, and implications for public health planning.
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Four in ten seniors go online
38% of adults age 65 and older go online, a significantly lower rate of adoption than the general population (74%).
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Strategic Learning for Health Care in 2010
Social media is simply the current expression of patient activation and engagement. But this time e-patients are part of a larger cultural change that assumes access to information, enables communication among disparate groups, and expects progress.
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Internet, broadband, and cell phone statistics
As of December 2009, 74% of American adults (ages 18 and older) use the internet.
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Latinos Online, 2006-2008
64% of Latino adults ages 18 and older used the internet in 2008, compared with 54% of Latinos in 2006.
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Teens and Sexting
How and why minor teens are sending sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images via text messaging.
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Teens and Sexting
4% of cell-owners ages 12 to 17 have sent sexually suggestive images of themselves by phone; 15% of cell owners that age have received “sexts” containing images of someone they know.
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The Stupid Cancer Show
Susannah Fox discusses Pew Internet’s health research, including a special survey of people living with cancer.
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How to survive in the new media ecology
Trends in the use of digital technology and what they mean to museums.