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24 million Americans have high-speed access at home and they use the Internet in dramatically different ways from dial-up users WASHINGTON (June 23) — Americans with high-speed Internet connections at home are strikingly different from dial-up Internet users in three ways: First, they use their broadband connections to create content that they post online and […]
Introduction Tens of millions of Americans turn to the Internet when they need help with health problems. Health professionals are often apprehensive about the reliability of online health information and wonder how consumers can possibly find good advice in the untamed wilderness of the Internet. In an environment where any quack can create a credible-looking […]
About Us This report is built around the phone survey work of the Pew Internet & American Life Project done by our polling partner Princeton Survey Research Associates that focused on Internet users who look for health information online. The main survey for this report involved phone interviews with 500 “health seekers” in the summer […]
WASHINGTON, DC–Information on the Web is important to significant numbers of Americans when they are making important choices related to education and job training, investments and big-ticket purchases, and health care for themselves or for loved ones. Online material is also important to a relatively large number of people who are looking for new jobs […]
Most Internet users who seek health information online find the advice they’re looking for and are cautious about how they use it. But only a quarter of them follow experts’ advice to carefully check the credibility of their sources. Medical librarians produce a guide for smart online health searches and great Web sites. WASHINGTON (May […]
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Three variables are strongly associated with differences among those who use government agency Web sites We have found that three variables are strongly associated with differences among those who use government agency Web sites: frequency of use, trust in government, and length of time online. Frequent visitors – 19% of those who use government Web […]
Health information, taxes, and more A new urgency for health information Half of government site users (49%) have sought health and safety advice from government sources. There are no notable demographic differences in this use of government sites. The evenness of demand suggests that the government is a widely trusted authority on health issues. Even […]