Use of the Internet for Health Information: United States 2009

July 1, 2011 Robin A. Cohen, Ph.D., and Patricia F. Adams of the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The researchers reviewed responses collected from 27,731 adults on the 2009 National Health Interview Survey. Health seeking on-line was defined as positive responses to the questions: “Have you ever used computers to look up health information on the Internet?” and “Did you look up health information on the Internet in the past 12 months?” The analysis split out on-line health seeking behavior by age, race, gender, income, employment status, and . . .