Excerpt from Information Rx for Healthy People in 2020 by Joshua Seidman at On Social Marketing and Social Change:

When Healthy People 2000 was dreamed up two decades ago, the World Wide Web was not much more than a figment of someone’s imagination. When Healthy People 2010 was issued 10 years later, the Web had become a powerful avenue for democratizing access to health information. How can we possibly anticipate what the Internet will mean when we try to evaluate the nation’s health in 2020? ...[to read more].

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