>From the Pew Internet and American Life Prject


http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/User_Demo_1.11.07.htm 

 

Siobhan

 

Siobhan Champ-Blackwell

Community Outreach Liaison

NN/LM-MCR

Creighton University Health Sciences Library

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Omaha, NE 68178

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siobhan at creighton.edu

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From: healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of IHABRAMSON at aol.com
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 7:13 PM
To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 730] Re: Wednesday Question: Where
doeshealthinformation...

 

But where  does his leave many of the older people who are not computer
literate and do not want to have anything to do  with the Internet,
etc.  Does someone have statistics re the number of US seniors who go
online?

 

Ilene

 

In a message dated 3/2/2007 9:12:50 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
NDavies at dthr.ab.ca writes:

	Almost all of the people I speak to in the Wellness Centre go
through the internet for health information, namely, Google, Yahoo,
Lycos, Sympatico. With this in mind, I signed up for the Searching for
Online Consumer Health Information course through the Canadian site
www.thepartnership.ca . It was really helpful - the percentage of people
who search for online health information is astounding. The worrying
thing is that sites with 'approved' consumer health information (written
in lay terms) are often found on very expensive databases, which I am
sure most people do not even know exist.
	
	As for health information that comes to us - there are countless
hours of commercials marketing pills/potions as the cure to lifestyle
diseases, like wrinkles, saggy skin, ergonomic pains (like the Advil
commercial of the woman typing SO wrongly, (extend your arms, pull your
hands up so they are perpendicular to your forearms, and move your
fingers as though you were typing - how painful is that?) modify your
actions, and you remove or reduce the need for pain killers.
	
	I have noticed an increase in the frequency of herbal medication
flyers, all claiming to help the consumer lose weight, regrow hair, fix
pimples etc. Let us not forget, also, the 'information' people receive
from their friends and coworkers, like taking laxatives to lose 'water
weight', not eating past 13:30 'to burn off your calories, and so on. 
	
	All of the "false" information people 'internalise' also affects
the way they interpret reliable health information: they factor in their
preconceived notions about a health topic, including the misinformation
about a specific subject - how do we counteract the health charlatans? 
	
	For as long as we have had medical practitioners, we have had
salesmen and their snake-oil.
	
	-----Original Message-----
	From: healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov
	[mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Julie
McKinney
	Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:52 PM
	To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov
	Subject: [HealthLiteracy 722] Wednesday Question: Where does
	healthinformation come from?
	
	
	Hi Everyone,
	
	It was suggested recently that we look at a variety of ways that
people in this country interact with health information, in order to
look beyond the provider-patient interaction as a focus of our efforts.
So, I would love us all to ask around and look around this week to find
out how people get their health information. Teachers can ask students,
providers can ask patients, and all of us can ask people we know and
look at the health messages that we see every day. 
	
	So, it's really two questions:
	
	Where do people seek health information when they want it?
	
	and
	
	In what ways does health information come to us automatically?
	
	All the best,
	Julie
	
	
	
	Julie McKinney
	Discussion List Moderator
	World Education/NCSALL
	jmckinney at worlded.org
	
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