Group disparities and health information: a study of online access for the underserved.
Group disparities and health information: a study of online access for the underserved.
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DOI：
10.1177/1460458207086332
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
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3
通讯作者：
Park, Heeyoung
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作者：
Lorence, Daniel;Park, Heeyoung
互联网是一个经常被引用的学习资源，对那些寻求在特定技术问题或知识密集型主题上自学的消费者很有用。公共访问互联网门户网站的可用性和个人电脑成本的下降已经形成了一种共识，即信息获取的不平等或“数字鸿沟”，对未投保或投保不足的医疗保健消费者来说，也是一个类似的信息问题。然而，访问信息现在是以消费者为中心的医疗保健管理的重要组成部分。到目前为止，很少有研究已经做了区分不同的亚组在网络上的健康信息的访问水平，连接在线的社会经济特征和健康寻求行为。这项对皮尤基金会一项具有里程碑意义的调查的分析旨在区分和描述信息访问，或缺乏所需的访问，在有针对性的，“数字服务不足”的亚群体。
The Internet is an oft-cited learning resource, useful to consumers who seek to educate themselves on specific technical issues or knowledge-intensive topics. Availability of public-access Internet portals and decreasing costs of personal computers have created a consensus that unequal access to information, or a "Digital Divide", presents a like problem specific to information for uninsured or under-insured healthcare consumers. Access to information, however, is now an essential part of consumer-centric healthcare management. To date little research has been done to differentiate levels of health information access on the Web by different subgroups, linking online socioeconomic characteristics and health seeking behaviors. This analysis of a landmark Pew Foundation survey seeks to differentiate and delineate information access, or lack of desired access, across targeted, "digitally underserved" subgroups.