Prevalence Of Using Of Internet And Social Media By Patients For Seeking Medical Information In Al Madinah AL Munawara KSA 2021

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND

Online health information seeking is an activity that needs to be explored in Saudi Arabia. While there are a growing number of studies that adopt a qualitative approach to this issue and attempt to understand the behaviors associated with online health information seeking, previous studies focusing on quantifying the prevalence and pattern of online health.

In the united states, United Kingdom and France several computer science laboratories had the initial concepts of wide area networking. Defense Department of united states awarded contracts in 1960. (1)

Today there is wide spread information on the internet.  the national information infrastructure often is the initial prototype. Technological, organizational and community are many aspects which is complex. its influence reaches and increase using of online tools to accomplish electronic commerce, information and community operations are ones of the technical fields of computer communications. (2)