Social Ties and Obesity
Loved ones not only influence your choice of school, car, or housing — they might influence your choices about smoking, exercise, and food, even if they live hundreds of miles away.
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“Good enough” technology
MP3s, dishwashers, can openers, and Twitter are examples of "good enough" technologies.
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Online Patient Groups
12% of internet users participate in an online patient group.
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Health Data Geeks’ Wisdom
Cancer “weather maps,” the age of biology, and how cell-only adults really are different from landline users.
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E-patients.net
Tom Ferguson’s spirit lives on at e-patients.net
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Future of Health Communication
This presentation provides data and insights about how the “participatory Web” may change how survey researchers think about online health information, as well as data on adults who continue to be offline in an online world.
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MyHealth, Circa 2007
Tagging, blogging, and social networking sites allow internet users to search for, catalog, and disseminate information.
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Online Health Search 2006
Most internet users start at a search engine when looking for health information online. Very few check the source and date of the information they find.
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Internet addiction
Is there such a thing as “internet addiction”? A new survey of internet users suggests that a portion of them experience behavioral problems connected to their internet use. Lee Rainie is among the panelists on the program who discuss the findings…
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2005, Foreign-Born Population in the United States Statistical Population
This statistical profile of the foreign born population is based on Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of the Census Bureau’s 2005 American Community Survey public use microdata file, which was released August 29, 2006.