{"id":96197,"date":"2008-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2008\/07\/30\/new-health-data\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:17:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:17:53","slug":"new-health-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/2008\/07\/30\/new-health-data\/","title":{"rendered":"New Health Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pew Internet Project recently updated our top three Latest Trends charts: Who’s Online<\/a>, Internet Activities<\/a>, and Daily Internet Activities<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Two of the new data points relate to health and health care. The October-December 2007 national phone survey included 2,054 adults age 18 and older, including 500 cell phone users. Of those, 75% say they have looked for health or medical information online. 10% of internet users say they searched for health information “yesterday,” which in a tracking survey like this one yields a picture of the “typical day” online. Health has moved up in the “typical day” list (from 7% in 2006 to the current 10% of internet users), but for most people the average day includes lots of emails (60% of internet users), general searches (49%), and news reading (39%) if they are online at all (30% of internet users are offline on a typical day).<\/p>\n\n

With this survey, we returned to the health question wording we had used in 2000<\/a> and 2002<\/a>: “Do you ever use the internet to look for health or medical information” (at that time yielding an estimate of 66% of internet users). In 2003-7, respondents were prompted with questions about specific health topics, such as diet, drugs, or alternative treatments, yielding a consistently higher estimate (80%) for the percentage of internet users who seek health information online in 2003<\/a>, 2004<\/a>, and 2006<\/a>. It is nice to see that when we returned to asking the more basic one-line question, it returns a similar result: 75% of internet users have looked for health or medical information online.<\/p>\n\n

The Oct-Dec 2007 survey is also distinguished by the fact that we included a group of cell phone users in our sample. We believe this is an important part of capturing an accurate picture of the U.S. population since 14.5% of all American adults live in households with only wireless phones (see “Polling in the age of cell phones”<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

We will update our 17 health topic trend data in a survey to be fielded this fall and, if you are interested in more frequent updates, I am writing about my observations of the internet’s impact on health care on the e-patients.net<\/a> blog.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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