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Article: Health information seeking on the Internet: a double divide? Results from a representative survey in the Paris metropolitan area, France, 2005-2006.(Research article)
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- BMC Public Health
- Article date:
- February 21, 2008
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Authors: Emilie Renahy (corresponding author) (equal contributor) [1,2]; Isabelle Parizot (equal contributor) [1,2]; Pierre Chauvin (equal contributor) [1,2,3]
Background
The Internet access rate has continued to increase in all industrialised countries over the past 15 years, having climbed recently to 54% in France and 70% in the United States [1]. The Internet is now a major information tool, both in people's professional and private lives. However, several studies report the existence of a persistent digital divide both in Internet access [2, 3, 4] and Internet use [5]. Such is the context in which a large number of general public ...
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