Xuewei Chen|Heather Orom|Jennifer L. Hay|Erika A. Waters|Elizabeth Schofield|Yuelin Li|Marc T. Kiviniemi
Differences in Rural and Urban Health Information Access and Use
University at Buffalo, State University of New York|University at Buffalo, State University of New York|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center|Washington University in St. Louis|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center|University of Kentucky
rural residents may lower access use certain health information sources relative urban residents investigated differences information source access use rural urban us adults whether low health literacy might exacerbate rural disparities access use health informationsix hundred participants 50 rural completed online survey access use 25 health information sources used logistic regression models test associations rurality access use health information sources whether rurality interacted health literacy predict access usecompared urban residents rural residents lower access health information sources including primary care providers specialist doctors blogs magazines less use search engines accounting sociodemographics rural residents lower access specialist doctors urban residents rural residents limited health literacy lower access mass media scientific literature higher use corporationscompanies rural residents adequate health literacy urban residents regardless health literacy levelsome differences access use health information sources may accounted sociodemographic differences rural urban populations may structural barriers shortage specialist doctors limited media exposure make harder rural residents access health information especially limited health literacy