Three-quarters of Internet users seek health info

[hax]

The Pew Internet Project released the latest estimate for the e-patient population: 75 percent of internet users. Here are some details from the survey.Epatients

Two of the new data points relate to health and health care. The October-December 2007 national phone survey shows that 75 percent of internet users answered yes to the single-line question, "Do you ever use the internet to look for health or medical information?"

Ten percent 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 percent in 2006 to the current 10 percent of internet users), but for most people the average day includes lots of emails (60 percent of internet users), general searches (49 percent), and news reading (39 percent) if they are online at all (30 percent of internet users are offline on a typical day).

[arcel]

Originally Posted by hax

The Pew Internet Project released the latest estimate for the e-patient population: 75 percent of internet users. Here are some details from the survey.Epatients

Two of the new data points relate to health and health care. The October-December 2007 national phone survey shows that 75 percent of internet users answered yes to the single-line question, "Do you ever use the internet to look for health or medical information?"

Ten percent 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 percent in 2006 to the current 10 percent of internet users), but for most people the average day includes lots of emails (60 percent of internet users), general searches (49 percent), and news reading (39 percent) if they are online at all (30 percent of internet users are offline on a typical day).

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This is a great FACT.

Internet is a get way to information technology through out the whole world. So, reading informations, press release, articles, news forums are great way to know things that you don't know. Most information in any topic is on the internet.

Since going to the doctor and paying a doctor's fee which is so expensive. You can search your symptoms or sickness on the internet.
The only time you go to the doctor is if you are down right sick.

[Asad]

Well... I haven't casted my vote in that pole
However, even I will say, "Yes! I do search for symptoms, diseases etc.. on Internet"

[cognitive]

I myself search like every two days for health informations , be those symptoms, diseases, medicine ,doctors offices , latest news in the field or health care courses ,so I don't wonder other people do that, too.
However, neither I treat myself based on the informations I got from internet,nor I would recommend to anybody to do that, but go and see a medical doctor .