Currently, people now google a doctor when they start experiencing aches, pains or any discomfort.
The Internet and the digitization boom have now allowed people to turn to Google to carry out all kinds of searches, especially on health issues.
And it is that, to tell the truth, today it is possible to find web pages and various sites with medical information, which, for some reason, have earned the trust of Internet users.
It should be noted that, according to the recent Digital 2022 report, signed by Hootsuite and We Are Social, it states that, today, the number of users connected to the web is close to five billion, four percent more compared to last year.
To a large extent, the arrival of the pandemic was key to this achievement, although, in the same way, the influence of the Internet on users had already been reflected for several years.
Today, according to data from the annual Eurostat surveyFinns, at 80 per cent, are the most likely to surf the web for health information, a growth of 22 per cent compared to 2011.
Denmark, on the other hand, occupies the second position with 75 percent and a growth of 19 percent compared to what was reported in 2011.
Of course, these data speak of the great trust that people have placed in internet searches, something that has given rise to a new phenomenon called “cyberchondria”, which speaks of the habit of people who obsessively seek health information on the internet and, as a result, they develop great anxiety about their own state of health.
Experts in the matter, although they assure that the Internet can be a reliable space, recommend that, above all, a visit to the doctor is better than any information found on the web.