Finding Answers Online in Sickness and in Health 5/2/2006 by Mary Madden & Susannah Fox for PEW. As more Americans come online, more rely on the internet for important health information. Fully 58% of those who found the internet to be crucial or important during a loved one's recent health crisis say the single most important source of information was something they found online. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/183/report_display.asp Reminder: How Americans use the Internet to gather & share health information is an ongoing concern of the Pew Internet & American Life researchers.
The latest (Apr. 26 2006 ) Pew Internet Impact & Penetration study fielded from Feb 15 -Apr 6, shows a new high in internet usage http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/182/report_display.asp More Pew Internet & American Life reports are listed at http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/c/5/topics.asp Life Online: Teens and technology and the world to come by Lee Rainie, Dir, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Mar 2006 http://www.pewinternet.org/ppt/Teens%20and%20technology.pdf Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS Community Outreach Liaison National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region Creighton University Health Sciences Library 2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE 68178 800-338-7657 in CO,KS,MO,NE,UT,WY 402-280-4156 outside the region [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nnlm.gov/mcr/ (NN/LM MCR Web Site) http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ (Web Log) http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell (Digital Divide Network Profile) _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
