Patients’ internet use and its effects on the healthcare professional-patient relationship The use of Internet plays an increasingly important role on receiving health information. About 50% of the people who were able to access to the Internet in the US sought health information during 1997(Eng et al‚ 1998‚ as cited in Cline and Haynes‚2001). The prevalence of searching health information from the internet by the patients has‚ without doubt‚ affected the healthcare professional-patient relationship
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Use of internet? The Internet is used for many things‚ such as electronic mail‚ online chat‚ file transfer‚ and the interlinked web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web. The most used service on the Internet is the World Wide Web (which is also called the "Web"). The Web contains websites‚ blogs‚ and also wikis like Wikipedia. Webpages on the Web can be seen and read by anyone (unless the page needs a password‚ or it is blocked). The second major use of the Internet is to send and receive
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We can describe the Internet as a system operating in a certain environment. The Internet can be described as a communication system‚ consisting of certain components between which certain interactions are observable to an observer. The environment provides a structural coupling between the Net and its support from the environment. The environment "holds" the system and provides the relevant resources and supports to maintain the systems functions. The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction
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Modern age is the period of wonderful development of science. Man has brought the world into his fist by dint of his own effort. One of the unique contributions of this period is “internet” this combined w-process of satellite technology and computer has brought an all pervading possible of human welfare. World internet is the abbreviated form of international network. The network od all networks is the most modern success of information technology. it can collect and send messages ‚information ‚picture
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THE ROLE OF ADVANCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISTANCE EDUCATION NETWORKS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. Prof. Tamás Lajos‚ Co-Chairman of EDEN-EADTU Task Force Eastern Europe‚ Dr. András Szûcs Prof. Jacques Vauthier Co-Chairman of EDEN-EADTU Task Force Eastern Europe‚ European Distance Education Network European Association of Distance Teaching Universities October 1996. 1/ INTRODUCTION The rapid and positive change of appreciation of open and distance learning‚ mainly
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Introduction The Internet is a huge collection of computer networks that can communicate with each other – a network of networks. It is built upon thousands of smaller regional networks spread out around the world. It has emerged as a powerful tool for education. It is a confluence of all kinds of information related to each and every field of education. It also allows teacher and students‚ sitting in far flung areas to interact‚ share and exchange information. This paper seeks to study about
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The Internet has allowed us to access information and communicate globally due to its unstoppable developments. With the Internet‚ everything becomes easy and simple to access. According to Children Trends Databank‚ “the rate of internet usage has increased continuously over the past few years because of those advancements and benefits. In 2010‚ almost six out of ten children ages three to seventeen used the Internet at home (57 percent)‚ nearly three times as many as in 1997 (22 percent). Eighty-five
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PARENTAL FILTERS ON THE INTERNET: THE MECHANISMS UTILIZED BY PARENTS IN CONTROLLING THEIR CHILDREN’S ACCESS TO INTERNET _______ A Thesis Presented to The College of Communication Polytechnic University of the Philippines _______ A Research Proposal Of the Requirement for the Degree Bachelor in Communication Research _______ by Bellen‚ Jessilyn Manlangit‚ Janna Marie Martinez‚ Odessa Jane Ronquillo‚ Jon-Jon March 2012 Introduction Technology‚ often defined as the
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done remotely‚ 24 hours a day and seven days a week USES OF INTERNET IN BANKING: Banking through the internet (Online) provides customers with a variety of services that are either free or have a minimal fee . The advantages of online banking to customers can be summed up with five words; convenience‚ ubiquity‚ transaction speed‚ efficiency‚ and effectiveness. Online banking is more convenient and ubiquitous for consumers because the internet is open 24 hours‚ and can be accessed from anywhere
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Should the Internet be censored? From colonial times to the present‚ the media in America has been subject to censorship challenges and regulations. The Internet has become a vast sea of opportunity. Everyone is seizing the moment. The good and the bad of society have reduced the meaning of the Internet. Menace threatens each onlooker‚ as people browse the many pages of Cyberspace. As the new technological advances help to shape our society‚ one cannot help but think of the dangers waiting
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