Consumer Health Information
"Consumer Health Information" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Information intended for potential users of medical and healthcare services. There is an emphasis on self-care and preventive approaches as well as information for community-wide dissemination and use.
| Descriptor ID |
D054626
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I02.233.332.186 N02.421.726.407.229
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Consumer Health Information".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Consumer Health Information" by people in this website by year, and whether "Consumer Health Information" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Consumer Health Information" by people in Profiles.
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Garba NA, Anderson F, Schneider GW, Bisschops J, Bhoite P, Lage OO, Sackstein R, Brown DR. Caring for Vulnerable Communities in Miami Dade County during the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2021; 32(2):598-606.
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Camacho-Rivera M, Gonzalez CJ, Morency JA, Blake KD, Calixte R. Heterogeneity in Trust of Cancer Information among Hispanic Adults in the United States: An Analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020 07; 29(7):1348-1356.
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Rooks RN, Kapral CG, Mathis AL. Chronic Conditions May Be More Important Than Race or Ethnicity in Relation to Health Information Seeking and Use. J Aging Health. 2019 04; 31(4):611-630.
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Aponte J, Nokes KM. Validating an electronic health literacy scale in an older hispanic population. J Clin Nurs. 2017 Sep; 26(17-18):2703-2711.
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Chaet AV, Morshedi B, Wells KJ, Barnes LE, Valdez R. Spanish-Language Consumer Health Information Technology Interventions: A Systematic Review. J Med Internet Res. 2016 08 10; 18(8):e214.
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Cramer EM. Health Information Behavior of Expectant and Recent Fathers. Am J Mens Health. 2018 03; 12(2):313-325.
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Somera LP, Lee HR, Badowski G, Cassel K. Health Information Seeking, Source Trust, and Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Health Information Trends and Needs Between Guam and the United States. J Health Commun. 2016; 21(4):469-78.
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Col?n-Ramos U, Finney Rutten LJ, Moser RP, Col?n-Lopez V, Ortiz AP, Yaroch AL. The association between fruit and vegetable intake, knowledge of the recommendations, and health information seeking within adults in the U.S. mainland and in Puerto Rico. J Health Commun. 2015; 20(1):105-11.
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Song H, Cramer EM, McRoy S. Information gathering and technology use among low-income minority men at risk for prostate cancer. Am J Mens Health. 2015 May; 9(3):235-46.
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George S, Moran E, Duran N, Jenders RA. Using animation as an information tool to advance health research literacy among minority participants. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2013; 2013:475-84.