Of those who sought outside information, 32% used the Internet, double the rate of a similar survey done in 2001. The Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington conducted telephone surveys of 9,400 households on a variety of health issues and collected information on 18,000 adults.
Other avenues for obtaining non-physician health information among survey respondents included books, magazines and newspapers (33%); friends or relatives (31%); TV and radio ads (15%); and other sources (5%).
Eighteen percent of surveyed elderly adults used the Internet last year to get health information, up from 7% in the 2001 survey. For more information, click here.
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