Uncle Sam and Social Media
Federal agencies can, and should, be the first responders to health questions. Social media can help.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Federal agencies can, and should, be the first responders to health questions. Social media can help.
E-patients are at the center of the health care revolution, but how will Health 2.0 attract and serve the majority, not just the elite?
About a third of online teens say they have been targets of online harassement. Older girls and intense internet users are the most likely to report these experiences.
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.
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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