- What about using the Internet to find health information?
- What kind of information did you look for?
- Where did you search for this information? Using what websites?
- Did you find the information you were looking for? Where did
you find it?
- What about major health issues? Can anybody think of a major health
issue that has been in the news? [PROMT IF NECESSARY: SARS, West Nile,
Walkerton, flu epidemic, the Norwalk virus]. Did anybody search information
concerning these issues?
- Now, what about the recent issues surrounding SARS? (Does everybody
remember the SARS outbreak in Toronto last spring)? At the time, were
you interested in finding information on SARS?
- How did you find information on SARS? From what sources?
- Do you feel you had enough information?
- Did you find that the information you were accessing was current
enough?
- Do you know anybody that used the Internet to find information
on SARS?
- Like with any major health issue in Canada, such as West Nile virus,
Mad Cow disease Walkerton and safe drinking water and Norwalk for example,
Health Canada was involved in providing information to Canadians about
SARS.
- How do you think that Health Canada was providing information
to Canadians about SARS? Through TV? Newspapers? the Internet?
- What do you think is the best way for Health Canada to provide
information about SARS to Canadians?
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