issues and responses

     studies

Studies include Tania Lewis' perceptive 'Seeking health information on the internet: lifestyle choice or a bad attack of cyberchondria?' in 28(4) Media, Culture & Society (2006) 521-539), Elizabeth Sillence, Pam Briggs, Peter Harris & Lesley Fishwick's 'Going online for health advice: Changes in usage and trust practices over the last five years' in 19(3) Interacting with Computers (2007) 397-4), R J Cline and K M Haynes' 'Consumer health information seeking on the Internet: the state of the art' in 16(6) Health Education Research 6 (2001) 671-692 and Michael Hardey's 1999 'Doctor in the house: the internet as a source of lay health knowledge and the challenge to expertise' in 21(6) Sociology of Health & Illness (1999) 820-35.

Points of entry to the literature on the reliability and evaluation of online medical information include the 'Health Information on the Internet Accessibility, Quality, & Readability in English and Spanish' by Gretchen Berland, Marc Elliott, Leo Morales et al in 285(20) Journal of the American Medical Association (2001) 2612–2621, 'The doctor, the patient and the world-wide web: how the internet is changing healthcare' by John Powell, M Darvell & J A M Gray in 96(2) Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2003), Susannah Fox & Lee Rainie's 2002 Vital Decisions: How Inter-net Users Decide what Information to Trust when they or their Loved Ones are Sick (PDF), Mohan Dutta-Bergman's 'Health Attitudes, Health Cognitions, and Health Behaviors among Internet Health Information Seekers: Population-Based Survey' in 6(2) Journal of Internet Medical Research, Mike Benigeri & Pierre Pluye's 'Health information on the Internet' in 18(4) Health Promotion International (2003) 380-386, the 2002 'The quality of health information on the internet' by Gretchen Purcell, Petra Wilson & Tony Delamothe in 324 British Medical Journal (2002) 557-8 and 'YouTube as a Source of Information on Immunization: A Content Analysis' by Jennifer Keelan, Vera Pavri-Garcia, George Tomlinson & Kumanan Wilson in 298(21) Journal of the American Medical Association (2007).

 

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