Health information, the internet, and the digital divide

Health Affairs

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 255-265

  Brodie, Mollyann ^a   Flournoy, Rebecca E ^a   Altman, Drew E ^b   Blendon, Robert J ^b   Benson, John M ^c   Rosenbaum, Marcus D ^d  

^a HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d National Public Radio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CHILD; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CHILD; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0011141974     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.19.6.255     Document Type: Article

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2. Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Kids and Media at the New Millennium: A Comprehensive National Analysis of Children's Media Use (Menlo Park, Calif.: Kaiser Family Foundation, November 1999).
3. We did not ask people how they used the Internet at work and therefore are not able to address how use at work might differ from use at home. Another random-digit-dial telephone survey of 2,500 U.S. households similarly found that 52 percent of respondents use the Internet to get health information, ranking lower than areas such as e-mail (85 percent), research (78 percent), and education (71 percent). Odyssey, "Half of PC Time Spent Online," The Big Picture, Traffic Patterns, 4 October 1999, (17 September 2000).
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