Health and Welfare
The world today as certainly changed because of the ways thing is now being used differently. They are possible ways you could download music from the internet without actually buying the CD, there is cyber-schooling and different ways of people meeting online. Recent development is the “generation Rx.com” with people actually turning to the internet for health related issues.
The readings I did for this session on Health and Welfare all expressed views on the different ways people turn to the internet for medical help “The New Medicine: E-Healthcare (Shneiderman, Chapter 8), “Online Health Search 2006”, “Generation Rx.com: How Young People Use the Internet for Health Information”, “Using the Internet to Empower Patients and to Develop Partnerships with Clinicians”, “War and Peace, East and West – Online: A Comparison of How Different World Religions Use the Internet”. Each presented moderated analysis of the different issues that are rising on how people have taken to believe the internet information and not researching the source.
The search engine are doing their best to give the information we need by using tags to recognize what your need is. The search result does not actually verify the source of its content; they just pull out result that contains your given word. Many internet users are often glad they got a quick and cheap result to what they want, whereas the credibility of these different sources is greatly questioned. The traditional physician and patient relationships will be conferred the internet by e-mails and correspondents, this will surely create a less crowed hospital environment in which the patient can go online send an e-mail regarding what kind of medical issue they have and the physician can then decide if it is bad enough for hospital visit, while talking care of the most complicated medical issues. E- Health will then only be good for this different instance when a reliable and credible source is involved and not based on search engine database. Religion can definitely not be used predominantly online to reflect its purpose, though it is used extensively to promote world peace, its use for religion purposes is questionable.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthywebsurfing.html
MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing
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I use a search engine to find information on health issues and I have admit to like other people, I don't check if the information is reliable or accurate. I just take for what it is. I think it's important to see if the is accurate at the same time a person should consult their doctor by phone or email about what they have found and see if they have any further information. As far as patient-physician relationship, I would see my physician if I'am seriously ill and the medication that I have taken does not work to cure the illness. If I have a cold or something, I would just take cold medicine like Nignt NyQuil or something. As far as Religion over the internet, everyone my feel offended by things being say about their religion. I really can't comment on this as much.
I agree with you that the internet is a growing network of health information. But I think they key issue to look at here is how accurate is it? Some people take the internet for granted and believe pretty much anything they read. Although the internet proves to be a reliable source in some areas I think that health should not be one of them. Although many citizens look to the internet for private health issues I still think that the best course of action should be to see your doctor which is what many do not do due to the rising cost of health coverage or many of the other existing problems in the health care system. How reliable do you think the internet is in your health?
This is great info to know.
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