What effect has the internet had on healthcare? Aleks Krotoski in this Sunday’s Observer writes a brilliant piece in the series Untangling the web
The web is having a profound effect on how we understand and how we do health.Last week, Bupa and the London School of Economics released the results of an international healthcare survey. More than 12,000 people across 12 different countries were asked about their attitudes towards ageing, chronic diseases and health and wellbeing. The report, Health Pulse 2010, made headlines around the world, not just because it coincided with people kickstarting the new year by logging on to fitness websites or checking their flu symptoms, but also because it fed our concerns about the web: it condemned online health information and us for believing in it.
