Published: January 8, 2011
What effect has the internet had on healthcare? Aleks Krotoski in this Sunday’s Observer writes a brilliant piece in the series Untangling the web
The web is having a profound effect on how we understand and how we do health.Last week, Bupa and the London School of Economics released the results of an international healthcare survey. More than 12,000 people across 12 different countries were asked about their attitudes towards ageing, chronic diseases and health and wellbeing. The report, Health Pulse 2010, made headlines around the world, not just because it coincided with people kickstarting the new year by logging on to fitness websites or checking their flu symptoms, but also because it fed our concerns about the web: it condemned online health information and us for believing in it.
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Source:The Guardian
It’s empowering sometimes, to take control of your own health, or parenting, or what not, with a few keystrokes. Other times, though, it can make you insane. Lisa Belkin on When Parents Know Too Much
When my son had some funky test results after a medical check-up last year, his doctor’s first advice to me was “don’t Google it.” I did anyway, of course, and he was right. Googling was a bad idea.
We live in a time when all information is literally at our fingertips, but we don’t always know how to filter it. It’s empowering sometimes, to take control of your own health or parenting or what not with a few keystrokes. Other times, though, it can make you insane.
Jennifer Gruden met her husband online nearly 20 years ago. She earns her living online, as a Web editor for More.ca, the Web site for Canada’s version of More magazine. An expatriate New Yorker who now lives in Toronto, she could not imagine life without her computer. On the other hand, she explains in a guest post today, it is not always her friend. Read More
Source: New York Times
