Health-related information seeking: Is it worth it?
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Highlights：
• The idealized model suggests individuals will pursue rational search strategies.
• But people engage in avoidance and denial and other more irrational strategies.
• Six conditions are typed by effort and good, contingent, and bad outcomes.
• A health care system dependent on proactivity is more and more problematic.
• We should revisit policies and systems dominated by the idealized model.
摘要
•The idealized model suggests individuals will pursue rational search strategies.•But people engage in avoidance and denial and other more irrational strategies.•Six conditions are typed by effort and good, contingent, and bad outcomes.•A health care system dependent on proactivity is more and more problematic.•We should revisit policies and systems dominated by the idealized model.
论文关键词：Human information behavior,Information seeking,Health-related information seeking,Avoidance,Ignorance
论文评审过程：Received 19 February 2014, Revised 30 May 2014, Accepted 4 June 2014, Available online 30 June 2014.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2014.06.001
