{"id":921,"date":"2010-02-04T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:13:08","slug":"americans-turning-to-internet-for-health-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2010\/02\/04\/921\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans turning to internet for health info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">From January through June 2009, 51% of adults aged 18-64 had used the Internet to look up health information during the past 12 months. This information was collected from NCHS&#8217; National Health Interview Survey, featured in a new <a title=\"Link to health IT web release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/healthinfo2009\/healthinfo2009.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">web release<\/a>. The data underscores the important role that IT is playing in the health field, as people search for answers quickly and exhaustively from the privacy of their own computer. Here&#8217;s the breakdown by sex:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/healthinfo2009_fig1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-922\" title=\"Percentage of adults aged 18-64 who in the past 12 months looked up health information on the internet or used online chat groups to learn about health topics, United States, January through June 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/healthinfo2009_fig1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Other data include the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Among adults aged 18-64, women were more likely than men to look up health information on the Internet (58.0% versus 43.4%) and were also more likely to use online chat groups to learn about health topics (4.1% versus 2.5%).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From January through June 2009, almost 5% of adults aged 18-64 had communicated with a health care provider by e-mail in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>During the first 6 months of 2009, 6% of adults aged 18-64 requested a refill of a prescription on the Internet, and almost 3% had made an appointment with a health care provider in the past 12 months using the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>For the full report, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/healthinfo2009\/healthinfo2009.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/healthinfo2009\/healthinfo2009.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From January through June 2009, 51% of adults aged 18-64 had used the Internet to look up health information during the past 12 months. This information was collected from NCHS&#8217; National Health Interview Survey, featured in a new web release. The data underscores the important role that IT is playing in the health field, as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62325,53746,10560],"tags":[41695,64167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921"}],"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\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}