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Evolution of Online Health-Related Information Seeking in France From 2010 to 2017: Results From Nationally Representative Surveys.

Pauline DucrotIlaria MontagniViet Nguyen ThanhAnne-Juliette SerryJean-Baptiste Richard
Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2021)
After a rapid growth in the internet use for seeking health information in the 2010 to 2014 period, a decrease was recorded in 2017, in parallel with a decrease in trust in the quality and reliability of information found online. These findings underline the need for public health authorities to increase citizens' eHealth literacy and to provide alternative trustworthy sources combining the popularity and accessibility of general health information websites.
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