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Editor's Note: Forbes reports that millennials are more heavily focused on healthy living than previous generations and often seek healthy living and other medical advice online rather than trust institutional healthcare -- 93% do not schedule preventive healthcare visits with insurance-provided primary care physicians. Millennials trust each other, rather than institutions and manufacturers and are far more prone to investigate alternative medicine. More than 68% of millennials use dietary supplements and they generally want to explore all of the "natural" approaches to healthy living. They are less likely to believe that physicians are infallible and that there is a manufactured pill or other chemical for every ailment. "This generation and the one to follow may very well be the demographics that move society to natural health," the article concludes.
Forbes
March 22, 2018
They want fitness benefits from their employers; they go to the gym a lot; and they often seek healthy living and other medical advice online rather than trust institutional healthcare. In fact,
93% of millennials
do not schedule preventive healthcare visits with their insurance-provided primary care physicians. Instead, they utilize urgent care facilities if they get sick, access medical advice online and choose to read health blogs for information on health-related matters. ...
Millennials are connected to each other, and they trust each other, rather than institutions and manufacturers. If a millennial wants to quit smoking for example, he will often search for related blogs and social media resolution posts from others who have been through the same experience to
get advice and support from those people
.
Social media has enabled millennials to pose questions about health and receive answers from a huge audience in real-time. But it doesn't end there.
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