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Issue 166: Sass, Hans-Martin: Gesundheitskulturen im Internet. E-Health-Möglichkeiten, Leistungen und Risiken. April 2006

Hans-Martin Sass discusses new opportunities and risks of health communication and the development of new health-centered communities on the Internet. E-health uses the internet to communicate health information and advice to lay people in an easy to understand language, to promote individual health care competence by de-professionalizing vast areas of previously privileged knowledge, to create new global rooms for interactive cyberspace communities, and thus change individual and cultural attitudes towards health and disease and traditional systems of providing and financing the treatment of sickness; e-health addresses issues of individual wellness and wellbeing, not just medical issues in health care. He stresses the importance of transforming trust-based traditional models of physician-patient interaction into Cyberplace based health communication and presents an interactive action guide for surfers and providers.