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ICTs and the changing health knowledge economy: how people find health information in Bangladesh

信息通信技术和不断变化的健康知识经济：孟加拉国人们如何查找健康信息

基本信息

批准号：
ES/J018651/1
负责人：
Gerald Bloom
金额：
$ 50.45万
依托单位：
Institute of Development Studies
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ018651%2F1
关键词：
ICTs changing health knowledge economy

项目摘要

This proposal is responding to the theme of "Information and Communication Technology and Development".Global access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is changing rapidly with the potential to impact on development in both positive and negative ways.One way of analysing the health sector is as a knowledge economy - how to access expert advice on how to manage a particular health problem and how to access specific commodities, such as drugs, which embody a large amount of research and development. Yet where does this access start? It starts with the individual or household making a decision to seek information - to seek the advice or find the commodities. In a resource poor household, how are such decisions made? In common with many of us, and the general human experience, 'Everyday Life Information-Seeking', is a mixture of sources: mediators - friends, family: finding information grounds (the local market) , and technology - going online, phoning a helpline, listening to the radio, accessing a library, etc. But for resource poor households what does that mix look like, and is it changing with the growth of ICTs? We know that poor households often have access to mobile phones and increasingly to the internet. Is this changing access changing the core behaviour of health information seeking? In this research we see three changing landscapes that could be affecting households choices. The health landscape is changing. New opportunities are opening up. In Bangladesh there are telephone helplines, local providers of health are sometimes networked in professional support, there are new private providers of healthcare. How does a household navigate these new opportunities?The ICT landscape is changing. Households have access to mobile phones. In many cases they have access to the internet. How much do they use these for seeking health information? Have they begun to use Google to self diagnose? Do they phone their distant cousins for advice, or are they still prioritising face-to-face contact? 'Information-seeking' itself is a changing (global) landscape. The world over we are creating new patterns of information-seeking. For instance, in developed countries the role of online social networks is a dominant channel. Are resource poor Bangladeshi households beginning to explore alternative information channels? Do they have a basic information literacy? Do the trust what they read in the newspapers, what they hear on the radio? Is the radio still a key channel for information or has it been replaced by the television?Our research will consider how these three changing landscapes interact with each other and while there are emerging bodies of work on each, there is very little that attempts to bring them together into a single conceptual framework supported by empirical research. This project, although focused on a single country, will explore different households in different resource settings to identify common approaches and decision-making patterns, to contribute to our understanding of how resource poor households are seeking health information in a changing world.

本建议是针对“信息和通信技术与发展”这一主题提出的，全球获取信息和通信技术的情况正在迅速变化，有可能对发展产生积极和消极的影响，分析卫生部门的一种方法是将其视为知识经济-如何就如何管理特定的卫生问题和如何获取特定商品获得专家意见，比如药物，这里面包含了大量的研究和开发。然而，这种访问从何开始？它始于个人或家庭决定寻求信息-寻求建议或寻找商品。在一个资源贫乏的家庭，如何做出这样的决定？与我们许多人的共同之处以及人类的一般经验一样，“日常生活信息寻求”是多种来源的混合体：中介-朋友、家人：寻找信息来源（当地市场），以及技术-上网、打电话、听广播、访问图书馆等。我们知道，贫困家庭通常有移动的电话，而且越来越多地使用互联网。这种不断变化的获取方式是否改变了寻求健康信息的核心行为？在这项研究中，我们看到了三种可能影响家庭选择的变化。卫生领域正在发生变化。新的机会正在出现。在孟加拉国，有电话热线，当地的保健提供者有时在专业支助方面联网，还有新的私人保健提供者。家庭如何把握这些新机遇？ICT格局正在发生变化。家庭可以使用移动的电话。在许多情况下，他们可以上网。他们在多大程度上使用这些来寻求健康信息？他们开始使用Google进行自我诊断了吗？他们是打电话给远方的表亲寻求建议，还是仍然优先考虑面对面的接触？ “信息寻求”本身就是一个不断变化的（全球）景观。我们正在全世界创造新的信息搜索模式。例如，在发达国家，在线社交网络是一个主要渠道。资源贫乏的孟加拉国家庭是否开始探索其他信息渠道？他们有基本的信息素养吗？相信他们在报纸上读到的，他们在收音机里听到的吗？收音机仍然是信息的主要渠道，还是已经被电视取代了？我们的研究将考虑这三个不断变化的景观如何相互作用，虽然每个都有新的工作机构，但很少有人试图将它们整合到一个由实证研究支持的单一概念框架中。该项目虽然侧重于一个国家，但将探讨不同资源环境中的不同家庭，以确定共同的方法和决策模式，帮助我们了解资源贫乏的家庭如何在不断变化的世界中寻求健康信息。