Latinos Online
Hispanics with lower levels of education and English proficiency remain largely disconnected from the internet.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Hispanics with lower levels of education and English proficiency remain largely disconnected from the internet.
African Americans are over-represented among cancer patients and under-represented among internet users, particularly on some health discussion group sites.
This presentation contains a general overview of the internet population, an analysis of African Americans and the internet, and some thoughts about the internet’s impact on health and health care.
A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers.
There are clear differences among those with broadband connections, dial-up connections, and no connections at all to the internet.
Pew Internet Project surveys tracked a 164% increase in online banking and a 90% increase in travel purchases between 2000 and 2002. Convenience and cost savings were the top reasons cited by Internet users who have switched to online banking.
Disease information, material about weight control, and facts about prescription drugs top the list of interests for health seekers. A typical health seeker searches for medical information only occasionally, and she relies on search engines and mult…
A great many of the fifty-two million “health seekers” say the resources they find on the Web have a direct effect on the decisions they make about their health care and on their interactions with doctors.
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