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Purpose/Significance The paper reviews the status quo of health information behavior research based on WeChat plat-form,grasps the research trends,and broadens the media perspective.Method/Process It systematically collects domestic and foreign literature,uses content analysis method to analyze the article publishing trend,research methods and research objects,summarizes and analyzes the subject category,and prospects the future development direction.Result/Conclusion Questionnaire survey and interview methods are widely used in the study of health information behavior on WeChat platform.The elderly users and the public account func-tions of WeChat platform become hot research objects.The subjects can be summarized into four categories:information using behavior,information adoption behavior,information dissemination behavior and continuous usage behavior.In the future,it is necessary to enrich research methods,subdivide research objects and clarify subject connotation and extension.
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Purpose/Significance The paper discusses the surrogate seeking behavior of online health information surrogate seeker of rural elderly,analyzes the characteristics of surrogate seeker in the process of behavior,and probes into the influencing factors of surrogate seeking behavior.Method/Process Semi-structured interviews are conducted with the surrogate seekers most frequently chosen by the rural elderly,and the interview results are coded.Result/Conclusion 37 initial concepts,15 sub-categories and 6 main categories are sorted out through three levels of coding,and a theoretical model of online health information surrogate seeking behavior for surrogate seeker is constructed.The influencing factors of surrogate seeking behavior include behavioral motivation,information ability,information awareness,environmental char-acteristics and intergenerational support.Surrogate seeking behavior can be divided into information retrieval,screening,processing and trans-mission processes,and surrogate seekers show the behavioral characteristics of firmness,emotional drive and subsidiarity.
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Social media are an important channel to spread health information and an important influencing factor for health information behaviors. The personal information on social media can predict the public health events, as-sess the personal health condition and help to improve the health behaviors of the public. The active role of foreign and domestic social media in predicting epidemic and infectious disease, monitoring smog, supporting user emotion and health, early warning drug adverse effects, and establishing healthy lifestyle were described. The health infor-mation analysis using the data on social media and the effect of social media on health information behaviors were summarized in order to provide the theory for the successive research.
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Objective To investigate the access to online health information in community residents.Methods The online health information behaviors in residents of 10 communities in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, China, were in-vestigated with questionnaires and analyzed by SPSS 19 .0 .Results Of the community residents included in this in-vestigation, 25%were positive in access to online health information on general gate website and commercial health information service website, 74.34%showed their concern for food safety information, 52.30%focused their con-cern on disease symptom information, and 66.79%were unable to differentiate true information from false informa-tion.Conclusion The community residents have a low positivity and lack of awareness in access to online health in-formation.It is thus pressingly necessary to build the government-dominated online health information platform, and improve the commercial network model and the ability of community residents to differentiate true information from false information.