More Than Half of Adults With Private Health Insurance Seek Health Information On-Line

Nearly 59% of individuals ages 18 to 64 covered by private insurance looked up health information on the Internet in the past 12 months. About one-third who were uninsured and about 31% who had Medicaid coverage sought health information on-line. These were the findings of a report, titled “Use of the Internet for Health Information: United States 2009,” by Robin A. Cohen, Ph.D., and Patricia F. Adams of the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The researchers reviewed responses collected from 27,731 adults on the 2009 National Health . . .