Access to Health Information and Support. A Public Highway or a Private Road?

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• Personal Author:
  Deering MJ ; Eng TR ; Gustafson DH ; Maxfield A ; Patrick K ; Ratzan SC
• Description:
  Information and communication technologies may help reduce health disparities through their potential for promoting health, preventing disease, and supporting clinical care for all. Unfortunately, those who have preventable health problems and lack health insurance coverage are the least likely to have access to such technologies. Barriers to access include cost, geographic location, illiteracy, disability, and factors related to the capacity of people to use these technologies appropriately and effectively. A goal of universal access to health information and support is proposed to augment existing initiatives to improve the health of individuals and the public. Both public- and private-sector stakeholders, particularly government agencies and private corporations, will need to collaboratively reduce the gap between the health information "haves" and "have-nots." This will include supporting health information technology access in homes and public places, developing applications for the growing diversity of users, funding research on access-related issues, ensuring the quality of health information and support, enhancing literacy in health and technology, training health information intermediaries, and integrating the concept of universal access to health information and support into health planning processes. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Disease-prevention Diseases Health-care Health-programs Health-services Information-systems Training
• ISSN:
  0098-7484
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; District of Columbia ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  280
• Issue:
  15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027858
• Citation:
  JAMA 1998 Oct; 280(15):1371-1375
• Contact Point Address:
  Thomas R. Eng, VMD, MPH, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, US Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Ave SW, Room 738G, Washington, DC 20201
• Email:
  teng@osophs.dhhs.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of the American Medical Association
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cc80b9272bb858954268045dc82e1957e889796d82bf845e2b4bb139163abfb7b6b7f78599e900d0799a398c02949f7bbb6c27a0b52ec92696613a5650bd21da
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/197689/cdc_197689_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 113.98 KB ]