Naslov
Seeking Health Information over the Internet: Cluster Analysis Approach to Analyzing Differences Among European Countries

Autori
Zoroja, Jovana ; Pejić Bach, Mirjana ; Miloloža, Ivan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), ostalo

Izvornik
Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Operational Research in Slovenia, SOR'21 in Slovenia / Drobne, Samo ; Zadnik Stirn, Lidija ; Kljajić Borštnar, Mirjana ; Povh, Janez ; Žerovnik, Janez - Ljubljana : Slovensko društvo informatika, 2021, 157-163

ISBN
978-961-6165-57-0

Skup
16th International Symposium on Operations Research (SOR ’21)

Mjesto i datum
Bled, Slovenija, 22.09.2021. - 24.09.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
health care, e-health, information seeking, Internet, Europe, Eurostat, cluster analysis

Sažetak
Health care has been recently under the strong impact of information and communication technologies, especially the internet. eHealth has become one of the most often mentioned concepts that raise hope for the increasing effectiveness of health care. Patients increasingly seek health information over the internet, thus increasing their access to knowledge and expertise available online. The paper aims to investigate the differences among individuals living in households with different levels of income and different levels of education in European countries according to their habits of seeking health information over the internet. For that purpose, K-means cluster analysis was used. We use the elbow method to determine the optimal number of clusters, which considers the percentage of variance explained as a function of the number of clusters. Data about the habits of seeking health information over the internet from the Eurostat database is used. Results indicate that education and income have a substantial impact on seeking health information on the internet. However, the differences among countries are the largest for the households with the income in the fourth quartile and the smallest for the households with the income in the first quartile.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija, Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti

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