Halkias Daphne, Harkiolakis Nicholas, Thurman Paul, Caracatsanis Sylva
Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece.
Telemed J E Health. 2008 Apr;14(3):255-60. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2007.0047.
With more than 1 billion Internet users worldwide, the World Wide Web has inevitably made its mark on the global healthcare industry. As a European Union (EU) nation, Greece has not conducted many e-health trend surveys due to the low penetration of the Internet and the continued belief among Greek consumers that the Internet cannot substitute for face-to-face contact with a physician. Yet, the extant literature does reveal a growing trend of Internet use for healthrelated information among Greek consumers over the past decade. The purpose of this study is to survey the extent of Internet use for health'related purposes among a representative sample of Greek consumers. Results indicated that Internet use among Greek consumers is rising in comparison with past surveys. Also, Greek consumers who are young, female, and well-educated seem to also trust health-related information found on the Internet as well as following recommendations they get from online health-related information.
全球有超过10亿互联网用户，万维网不可避免地在全球医疗行业留下了印记。作为欧盟国家，由于互联网普及率低以及希腊消费者一直认为互联网无法替代与医生的面对面接触，希腊没有开展过很多电子健康趋势调查。然而，现有文献确实显示，在过去十年中，希腊消费者使用互联网获取健康相关信息的趋势不断增长。本研究的目的是调查希腊消费者代表性样本中出于健康相关目的使用互联网的程度。结果表明，与过去的调查相比，希腊消费者使用互联网的情况正在上升。此外，年轻、女性且受过良好教育的希腊消费者似乎也信任在互联网上找到的健康相关信息以及遵循他们从在线健康相关信息中获得的建议。
