{"id":7486,"date":"2023-11-03T10:30:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7486"},"modified":"2023-11-02T18:13:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T18:13:16","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-who-used-the-internet-in-the-past-12-months-to-communicate-with-a-doctor-or-doctors-office-by-urbanization-level-national-health-interview-survey-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/11\/03\/7486\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Who Used the Internet in the Past 12 Months to Communicate with a Doctor or Doctor&#8217;s Office, by Urbanization Level \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, July\u2013December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7244a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7244a5-F.gif?_=58585\" width=\"499\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During July\u2013December 2022, 41.5% of U.S. adults used the Internet in the past 12 months to communicate with a doctor or doctor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of adults who used the Internet to communicate with a doctor or doctor\u2019s office was highest among adults living in large central metropolitan (45.9%) and large fringe metropolitan (47.0%) counties, then decreased with decreasing level of urbanization to 26.1% for those living in noncore counties.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2022.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7244a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7244a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During July\u2013December 2022, 41.5% of U.S. adults used the Internet in the past 12 months to communicate with a doctor or doctor\u2019s office. The percentage of adults who used the Internet to communicate with a doctor or doctor\u2019s office was highest among adults living in large central metropolitan (45.9%) and large fringe metropolitan (47.0%) counties,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4008,62325,53746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7488,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions\/7488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}