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0269/2015 - Patterns of queries on cancer on the Internet: reactivity, risks and affections.
Padrões de buscas sobre câncer na Internet: reatividades, riscos e afetos.

Author:

• Paulo Roberto Vasconcellos da Silva - Vasconcellos-Silva, P. R. - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública (IOC/ENSP), Lab. Inovações terapêuticas, ensino e bioprodutos (LITEB) - <paulo.vasconcellos@ioc.fiocruz.br, bioeticaunirio@yahoo.com.br> +
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4646-3580

Co-author(s):

• Francisco Romão Ferreira - Ferreira, F.Romão - Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro - UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO, INSTITUTO DE NUTRIÇÃO - <fromao@terra.com.br>
• Luis David Castiel - Castiel, L.D. - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - FUNDAÇÃO OSWALDO CRUZ, ESCOLA NACIONAL DE SAÚDE PÚBLICA - <luis.castiel@ensp.fiocruz.br>

Thematic Area:

Informação e Comunicação em Saúde

Abstract:

The popularization of ICTs and the availability of information have not influenced the habits of prevention - cancers are lately diagnosed, as before in the scarcity of information era. This paper analyzes patterns of accesses to the National Cancer Institute website (already described in previous articles) as well as contradictions between the purposes and results of cancer prevention campaigns. We identified a reactive pattern of queries which was indifferent to information on prevention, but interested in treatment technologies and news about celebrity’s diseases. These findings contrast with the paradigm of the best data for decision making, based in the heteronomy of “banking education”, its means and efficacy. We discuss the symbolic power of campaigns under the theoretical framework of emotional heuristic models - analytical tools rarely employed in studies of risks, but here considered essential elements to the comprehention of public perception of health. Ambiguities are portrayed and as well as its pendulum between certainties and uncertainties in the midst on which they are formed. It is discussed the risk tripartition - as perception, analysis and policy, the latest posed as a public clash between the first concerning the major risks aligned to their historical circumstances.

Keywords:

internet media and health health communication health sociology

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Vasconcellos-Silva, P. R., Ferreira, F.Romão, Castiel, L.D.. Patterns of queries on cancer on the Internet: reactivity, risks and affections.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2015/Sep). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/patterns-of-queries-on-cancer-on-the-internet-reactivity-risks-and-affections/15342?id=15342&id=15342



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