Web-based consumer health information: public access, digital division, and remainders.
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: Public access Internet portals and decreasing costs of personal computers have created a growing consensus that unequal access to information, or a "digital divide," has largely disappeared for US consumers. A series of technology initiatives in the late 1990s were believed to have largely eliminated the divide. For healthcare patients, access to information is an essential part of the consumer-centric framework outlined in the recently proposed national health information initiative. Data from a recent study of health information-seeking behaviors on the Internet suggest that a "digitally underserved group" persists, effectively limiting the planned national health information infrastructure to wealthier Americans.
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: Daniel Lorence, Heeyoung Park
Institution: Pennsylvania State University
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2966927180