{"id":96357,"date":"2008-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2008\/02\/11\/health-information-seeking-on-a-typical-day\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:17:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:17:54","slug":"health-information-seeking-on-a-typical-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/2008\/02\/11\/health-information-seeking-on-a-typical-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Information-Seeking on a Typical Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since a press release<\/a> about a new study from MD Anderson Cancer Center cites our health data, I thought I’d provide a few links to relevant reports. <\/p>\n\n

Here is the quote from our 2002 report, Vital Decisions<\/a>, which was cited today: “In a national survey conducted March 1-31, 2002, the Pew Internet Project found that 62% of Internet users, or 73 million people in the United States, have gone online in search of health information… About 6 million Americans go online for medical advice on a typical day. That means more people go online for medical advice on any given day than actually visit health professionals, according to figures provided by the American Medical Association.” <\/p>\n\n

A more recent estimate is included in Online Health Search 2006<\/a>: “Eighty percent of American internet users, or some 113 million adults, have searched for information on at least one of seventeen health topics… 7% of e-patients, or about 8 million American adults, searched for information on at least one health topic on a typical day in August 2006. This places health searches at about the same level of popularity on a typical day as paying bills online, reading blogs, or using the internet to look up a phone number or address.” <\/p>\n\n

If you are interested in the findings of today’s study, which was published in the journal Cancer, there is an audio interview<\/a> with the lead author, Funda Meric-Bernstam, M.D., on Medpage Today.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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