With the popularity of the Internet, more and more people are turning to their computers for health information, advice, support and services. With its information based firmly on research, The Internet and Health Communication provides an in-depth analysis of the changes in human communication and health care resulting from the Internet revolution. Representing a wide range of expertise, the contributors provide an extensive variety of examples from the micro to the macro, including information about HMO web sites, Internet pharmacies, and web-enabled hospitals, to vividly illustrate their findings and conclusions.

A Comparative Features Analysis of Publicly Accessible Commercial and Government Health Database Web Sites

A Comparative Features Analysis of Publicly Accessible Commercial and Government Health Database Web Sites

A comparative features analysis of publicly accessible commercial and government health database web sites
Ronald E.RiceMichaelPetersonRobertChristine

The goal of this study was to compare the features of a set of commercial health database sites to those of a set of government health database sites. Given the different kinds of cultural imperatives, structural incentives and constraints, audiences, motivations, purposes, and criteria used by commercial versus government health, we might expect some differences in the kinds of services and features used by these two types of sources.

Tension between Cultural Imperatives and Structural Incentives and Constraints

Internet health care communication takes many forms. However, the sustained distribution of sophisticated, timely health care information via the Internet often ...

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