Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Pediatr Clin North Am. 2012 Jun;59(3):717-27, ix. doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2012.03.018.
The Internet, in contrast to in-person interactions with health providers, allows anonymous and nonpunitive ease of access. Adolescents have long sought honest, direct answers to important but embarrassing questions about health; emerging technologies provide a venue to obtain relevant information without geographic, time, financial, and personal barriers. This article is a case study of TeenHealthFX.com. Those interested in how youth access online health information can learn of the positive and negative aspects of delivering messages through the Internet. This article discusses the process involved in creating and maintaining TeenHealthFX and the challenges of providing online health information to adolescents via new technology.
与与医疗服务提供者的面对面互动相比，互联网具有匿名性和非惩罚性，易于访问。青少年长期以来一直寻求诚实、直接的答案，以解决有关健康的重要但尴尬的问题；新兴技术提供了一个无需地理、时间、财务和个人障碍即可获得相关信息的场所。本文以 TeenHealthFX.com 为例。那些有兴趣了解青少年如何获取在线健康信息的人，可以了解通过互联网传递信息的积极和消极方面。本文讨论了创建和维护 TeenHealthFX 所涉及的过程，以及通过新技术向青少年提供在线健康信息所面临的挑战。
