MyHealth, Circa 2007 Susannah Fox Associate Director Pew Internet Project February 6, 2007
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MyHealth, Circa 2007
Susannah FoxAssociate DirectorPew Internet Project
February 6, 2007
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Share of Americans online by age(Based on Pew Internet Project telephone surveys)
2000-2006
85%80%
69%
31%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Age 18-29 Age 30-49 Age 50-64 Age 65+
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Share of Americans online by education level(Based on Pew Internet Project telephone surveys)
2000-2006
33%
72%
59%
91%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
High school diploma College degree
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Defining the population
• The question we asked in both 2002 and in 2006: “Does any disability, handicap, or chronic disease keep you from participating fully in work, school, housework, or other activities, or not?”
• 17% of adults said yes in Aug. 2006
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Share of Americans online by disability status(Based on Pew Internet Project surveys, Nov-Dec 2002 and Aug 2006)
35%
61%
51%
74%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Living with disability or illness No disability or illness
2002
2006
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Percent of each group who have looked online for this type of information(Based on a Pew Internet Project August 2006 survey)
79
62
49
48
44
35
11
86
73
64
53
46
51
24
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
At least one of the 17 topics
Specific disease or medicalproblem
Certain medical treatmentsor procedures
Diet, nutrition, vitamins, ornutritional supplements
Exercise or fitness
Prescription or over-the-counter drugs
Medicare or Medicaid Internet users w/disability
Internet users w/no disability
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Dooce.com: Personal story of skin cancer
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MySpace: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
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Flickr: Personal surgery photos
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Flickr: Triumph in the ER
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YouTube: ACL reconstruction
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Wikipedia: Asthma
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Wikipedia: Asthma
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Further reading
• Tagging http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/201/report_display.asp
• Social Networking Websites and Teens http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp
• Online Health Search 2006 http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/190/report_display.asp
• Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/186/report_display.asp