Exploring how members of the public access and use health research and information: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Making high-quality health and care information available to members of the general public is crucial to support populations with self-care and improve health outcomes. While attention has been paid to how the public accesses and uses health information generally (including personal records, commercial product information or reviews on healthcare practitioners and organisations) and how practitioners and policy-makers access health research evidence, no overview exists of the way that the public accesses and uses high quality health and care information.

Purpose

This scoping review aimed to map research evidence on how the public accesses and uses a specific type of health information, namely health research and information that does not include personal, product

SUBMITTER: Heaton-Shrestha C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10629152 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature