TY - JOUR
T1 - The Health Information National Trends Survey
T2 - Research from the baseline
AU - Hesse, Bradford W.
AU - Moser, Richard P.
AU - Rutten, Lila J.Finney
AU - Kreps, Gary L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Fast forward to 2003, the baseline year for the NCI’s newly minted HINTS. Congress had just allocated its fifth year of double-digit funding increases to accelerate the nation’s fight against cancer (Von Eschenbach, 2004), and public health progress in cancer prevention and control was continuing. The steady decline in age-adjusted cancer deaths continued its downward trend with progress influenced heavily by primary prevention efforts in tobacco and diet; secondary prevention efforts for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers; and continued advances in treatment (American Cancer Society, 2006). In laboratories funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), scientists completed mapping the more than three billion base pairs composing the Human Genome 2 years ahead of schedule. The result was to make an unprecedented amount of common genetic data available to cancer researchers, opening up an era of tailored medicine (National Human Genome Research Institute, 2003).
PY - 2006/2/1
Y1 - 2006/2/1
N2 - The decades surrounding the turn of the millennium will be remembered as a time of extraordinary opportunity in cancer communication. In 1990, the number of ageadjusted deaths due to cancer in the U.S. population began a slow steady decline after a century of disparaging increase. Reasons for this decline have been attributed to long-awaited successes in primary prevention, especially related to tobacco, and early detection for cervical, breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers, as well as advances in treatment. This was also a time of unparalleled change in the cancer communication environment. Scientific health discoveries escalated with the completion of the Human Genome project in 2003, and penetration of the Internet made health information available directly to consumers. To seize the opportunity afforded by these changes, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS). Fielded for the first time in 2003, the HINTS is a nationally representative, general population survey of noninstitutionalized adults in the United States 18 years and older. This supplement contains a compilation of original research conducted using the data generated by the first administration of the HINTS telephone interviews. Covering topics in cancer knowledge, cancer cognition, risk perception, and information seeking, the articles represent an interdisciplinary view of cancer communication at the turn of the millennium and offer insight into the road ahead.
AB - The decades surrounding the turn of the millennium will be remembered as a time of extraordinary opportunity in cancer communication. In 1990, the number of ageadjusted deaths due to cancer in the U.S. population began a slow steady decline after a century of disparaging increase. Reasons for this decline have been attributed to long-awaited successes in primary prevention, especially related to tobacco, and early detection for cervical, breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers, as well as advances in treatment. This was also a time of unparalleled change in the cancer communication environment. Scientific health discoveries escalated with the completion of the Human Genome project in 2003, and penetration of the Internet made health information available directly to consumers. To seize the opportunity afforded by these changes, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS). Fielded for the first time in 2003, the HINTS is a nationally representative, general population survey of noninstitutionalized adults in the United States 18 years and older. This supplement contains a compilation of original research conducted using the data generated by the first administration of the HINTS telephone interviews. Covering topics in cancer knowledge, cancer cognition, risk perception, and information seeking, the articles represent an interdisciplinary view of cancer communication at the turn of the millennium and offer insight into the road ahead.
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U2 - 10.1080/10810730600692553
DO - 10.1080/10810730600692553
M3 - Review article
C2 - 16641070
AN - SCOPUS:33745393901
SN - 1081-0730
VL - 11
SP - vii-xvi
JO - Journal of health communication
JF - Journal of health communication
IS - SUPPL. 1
ER -