Access to health information: going from professional to public practices

Laurence Balicco (1) , Céline Paganelli (1)

1 GRESEC - Groupe de Recherche sur les Enjeux de la Communication

Health information has encountered deep changes these last years under the influence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Medical information that is controlled, produced and distributed by specialists (public and scientific institutions for example), has seen the rise of public information, partly produced by non-specialists. These evolutions have consequences on the access to this information, that has been enlarged and transformed, evolving from essentially professional uses for which the boundaries are clearly defined, to public uses in which personal discourses and specialized information are merged. This article raises two complementary facets of access to health information. Firstly, we present the professional practices, and those of patients whom participate in health forums.

Mots clés: health information; informational practices; discussion forums; health doctors; patients.

Mots clés: information de santé; pratiques informationnelles; forums de discussion de santé; patients; médecins

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Laurence Balicco, Céline Paganelli. Access to health information: going from professional to public practices. Information Systems & Economic Intelligence: 4th International Conference - SIIE'2011, Feb 2011, Marrakech, Morocco. p. 135. ⟨hal-00652111⟩