Predicting and Empowering Health for Generation Z by Comparing Health Information Seeking and Digital Health Literacy: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study

Wen Jiao   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Angela Chang   ^{2, 3 *} , PhD ;   Mary Ho   ^{4 *} , BSocSci ;   Qianfeng Lu   ^{4 *} , MSc ;   Matthew Tingchi Liu   ⁵ , PhD ;   Peter Johannes Schulz   ^{3, 4, 6} , PhD

¹ School of Communication, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

² Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, China

³ Institute of Communication and Health, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

⁴ Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

⁵ Faculty of Business and Administration, University of Macau, Macao, China

⁶ Department of Communications and Media, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

*these authors contributed equally