The social life of health information
Our national survey finds that seven-in-ten (72%) adult internet users say they have searched online for information about a range of health issues, the most popular being specific diseases and treatments.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Our national survey finds that seven-in-ten (72%) adult internet users say they have searched online for information about a range of health issues, the most popular being specific diseases and treatments.
Susannah Fox will present the latest research on how mobile, social technologies are transforming health and health care in the U.S. and abroad.
35% of U.S. adults have gone online to figure out a medical condition; of these, half followed up with a visit to a medical professional.
Thirty percent of U.S. adults provide support to a loved one. The internet is a key information and communications resource for this front-line labor force.
The American Journal of Managed Care recently published a commentary entitled, “Bowling Alone, Healing Together: The Role of Social Capital in Delivery Reform.”
Susannah Fox presented Pew Internet’s latest research on mobile, social networks, teens, and health.
As mobile, social tools spread throughout the population, people are connecting with each other. Why not harness those tools for health?
Peer-to-peer healthcare is a way for people to do what they have always done – lend a hand, lend an ear, lend advice – but at internet speed and at internet scale.
The internet provides access not only to information, but also to each other, and Pew Internet’s research documents how this has transformed the health communications landscape over the last 10 years.
Is “peer-to-peer healthcare” an idea whose time has come? Evidence and recent examples.
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