Peer-to-peer Health Care
Many people – especially those living with chronic or rare diseases – use online connections to supplement professional medical advice.
Search results for: “caregivers”
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Peer-to-peer healthcare is common in the U.S.
Many people – especially those living with chronic and rare diseases – use online connections to supplement professional medical advice.
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Different Sources for Different Kinds of Information
Professionals or peers? Both. In March 1999, Tom Ferguson, a medical doctor and self-care advocate, and Bill Kelly, cofounder of Sapient Health Network, fielded a survey of an online patient community which asked members to rate the most useful resource for twelve dimensions of medical care.[14. numoffset=”14″ “E-Patients Prefer eGroups to Doctors for 10 of […]
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Health Topics
Health topics are listed from the most commonly-searched to the least. Not surprisingly, some questions are perennially at the top of the list among internet users looking online for health information: What do I have? How do I treat it? Who can help me figure this out? Where should I go to get a procedure […]
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Acknowledgements
This report is the result of collaboration between the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare Foundation. The Pew Internet & American Life Project is an initiative of the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project is nonpartisan and […]
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Profiles of Health Information Seekers
Who gathers health information online? Health information gathering online has been consistently popular over the last decade. Eight in ten internet users looked online for health information in 2002 and the same proportion do so today. What has changed is who has access to the internet. With the exception of adults age 70 and older […]
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Health Information is a Popular Pursuit Online
59% of all adults in the U.S. look for health information online. Eight in ten internet users look online for health information, making it the third most popular online activity among all those included in the Pew Internet Project’s surveys.[1. numoffset=”1″ “Generations 2010” (Pew Internet Project: December 16, 2010). Available at: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2010/Generations-2010.aspx] Internet access drives […]
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Health Topics
80% of internet users gather health information online, but a “health information divide” emerges along education, age, and income lines.
