Mobile Health
Susannah Fox will participate in the first working meeting of the Open mHealth Public-Private Partnership in Washington, DC.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Susannah Fox will participate in the first working meeting of the Open mHealth Public-Private Partnership in Washington, DC.
Susannah Fox presented the Project’s latest findings on how mobile access is affecting health and health care.
More than a quarter of American adults – 26% – used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 mid-term election campaign.
Adults make just as many calls, but text less often than teens. Americans say their mobile phones make them feel safer and more connected, but are irritated by cell intrusions and rudeness by other users.
The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults.
Those in households earning over $75,000 are different from other Americans in their tech ownership and use.
35% of U.S. adults have cell phones with apps, but only 24% of adults actually use them. Apps users are younger, more educated, and more affluent than other cell phone users.
Six in ten Americans go online wirelessly using a laptop or cell phone; African-Americans and 18-29 year olds lead the way in the use of cell phone data applications, but older adults are gaining ground.
Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like going before the best kind of murder board. Our jumping-off point was the Pew Internet Project’s latest research on internet penetration, mobile use, and the socia…
In regions around the world – and in countries with varying levels of economic development – people who use the internet are using it for social networking. Other forms of technology are also increasingly popular: cell phone ownership and computer usage have grown significantly across the globe over the last three years, and they have risen dramatically since 2002. Consistently, these technologies are especially popular among young people.
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