An editorial I wrote in a recent issue of He@lth Information on the Internet
gives figures about use of the Net for health purposes, including a link to
the CyberDialog press release. See:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/homlibinfacthiiarc10ins.html
You may also want to see the resullts of the Health on the Net surveys,
available at: http://www.hon.ch/Survey/analysis.html
Regards
R
Robert Kiley
Information Service Manager,
Wellcome Trust - 183, Euston Road, London. NW1 2BE
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Editor Health Information on the Internet
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Jones [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 22 October 1999 10:07
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Use of the Internet and Patient & Parent Education
>
>
> Dear Consumer-health-informatics list member
>
> Mike Meyers said.....
>
> >In the United States, the Internet is becoming the preferred method
> >for patient education. Currently, 60% of Internet users seek health
> >information with 77% wanting it from their own health care
> >professional (ref: Cyber Dialogue study 1998).
>
> I have not seen the Cyber Dialogue survey (how can I get a
> copy?) and wonder
> how they derived their figures. I also wonder if it gives
> POPULATION figures
> for how many have ACCESS to the Internet at home? So many of
> these Internet
> surveys just count page hits on the WWW which only gives us
> very limited
> information. The IMPORTANT thing to know is (eg) amongst people:
> a) aged <20, 21-40, 41-60,61+ in the state of X, or
> b) black, white
> c) male, female
> d) rich, poor
> what percentage have access at home to the Internet and how
> many of them
> have used it. That is we need some proper 'epidemiology' of
> Internet use. Do
> to such a survey (properly) you need to do a postal or
> interview survey of a
> geographical region (I MIGHT accept figures from a telephone
> survey but this
> would overestimate prevalence of access in poorer groups)
>
> ......Do such figures exist in YOUR country? If so, where can
> I get details
> of the report?
>
> Thanks Ray
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