Understanding human behavior is a complicated task, especially when it involves the Internet, which now has over two billion users worldwide.
In a world of increasing healthcare costs, months-long waits to get into your physician's office, and a need for immediate diagnosis information, it is no wonder that so many people have started using the Internet to search for health information. Between purely informational websites regarding certain ailments or diseases to websites that include self-diagnoses tools, the amount of health information available to the general public is massive.
To best understand people's behavior when searching for health information online, we first turned to previous studies that had been done on the topic. An incredible amount of studies have been conducted that explore the nature and complexities of seeking health information online.
The findings of these studies are varied and complex, each study providing a fascinating look into a certain aspect of searching for health information online. You can find the summaries for two of these studies here and a complete list of online health information seeking-related studies here .
Because our research is still being conducted, we don't have a full list of results yet. As we are able to, we will present our results on this page.
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