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- Title
Study of education disparities and health information seeking behavior.
- Authors
Lorence, Daniel; Park, Heeyoung
- Abstract
This exploratory technology assessment examines how educational characteristics of health information seekers are associated with access to computers, the Internet, and online health information. Specifically, we examine (1) if there exists significant variation across identified health technology user groups regarding access to online health information, and (2) if differences between education levels have narrowed, remained constant, or widened over recent years, following national educational initiatives to narrow the technology gap for low-education user groups. Using a stratified sample from national tracking survey data, we find that recent policy initiatives under national technology access and other programs have demonstrated little effect in narrowing the digital divide for low-education users of web-based technologies.
- Publication
Cyberpsychology & behavior : the impact of the Internet, multimedia and virtual reality on behavior and society, 2007, Vol 10, Issue 1, p149
- ISSN
1094-9313
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1089/cpb.2006.9977