Effects Of Internet Use On Individual Health

No matter for the individual,the society or the country,health is of great significance.In recent years,with the development of economic conditions and material living standards,people pay more and more attention to health issues on the basis of solving the problem of food and clothing.With the improvement of new technology,the Internet,as an information media,has gradually penetrated into all aspects of people's lives.The popularity of the Internet has brought new opportunities to health communication.Internet communication has the characteristics and advantages of high efficiency,convenience and sharing,which plays an increasingly important role in the dissemination of health knowledge.While Internet penetration continues to increase and residents' health needs continue to deepen,exploring whether and how the use of the Internet will have an impact on individual health is a new direction worth studying in the field of health.Based on the data of CFPS2018,and referring to the theory of Internet health communication,this paper analyzes the impact of Internet use on the self-assessed health level of adult individuals.At the same time,Internet use is divided into three dimensions: whether to use the Internet,Internet use as a channel of information,and Internet use behavior.This paper attempts to discuss what kind of effects that different Internet use will have on individual health,and provides theoretical support and countermeasure suggestions for improving the national health level in the background of "Internet +".First of all,based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory,Grossman health human capital model and Internet health communication theory,this paper explains the relationship between Internet use and individual health,and puts forward three hypotheses that Internet use may bring benchmark effects,media effects and behavioral effects to individual health.Then the data are processed on the basis of CFPS 2018 data,and the Internet use and health distribution of people with different characteristics are analyzed,as well as the health distribution of people under different Internet use.It is found that there may be a positive correlation between Internet use and health distribution,while there may be a non-linear relationship between Internet use behavior and individual health.According to the above research design,the ordered logistic regression method is used to analyze the effects of different Internet use on individual health,to verify the three hypotheses mentioned above,and to explore the effects of the interaction between Internet media use and intensity on individual health,and on this basis to construct the impact mechanism of Internet use on individual health.Considering that there may be endogenous problems between Internet use and individual health,the relationship between Internet use and individual health is reestimated by propensity score matching method,and the results are still robust.At the same time,the effects of Internet use on health among different age groups were also analyzed.The results show that Internet use has benchmark effects,media effects and behavioral effects on individual health,in which benchmark effect and media effect are shown in the positive promoting effect on individual health,while behavioral effect exists in two levels.Surfing the Internet within a reasonable range of time can effectively promote health,while excessive use of the Internet will bring damage to health.If individuals use the Internet as an important channel for access to information but do not use it for a certain time,or if individuals use the Internet for a long time but do not attach importance to obtaining information through the Internet,Internet use cannot have a positive impact on their health.In addition,this paper also found that the effects of Internet use on individual health are different in different age groups,and the benchmark effect,media effect and behavioral effect of Internet use on 40-59-year-old people are the most significant.Based on the above analysis of the impact of Internet use on individual health,in order to improve health,in order to improve the health level,we should strengthen the construction of Internet hardware and software facilities to provide more opportunities for the middle-aged and the elderly to use the Internet.At the same time,we should actively promote the establishment of an Internet health information platform and gradually popularize Internet health education.In addition,multiple publicity methods should be carried out simultaneously to promote healthy Internet usage.