title: Understanding children: a qualitative study on health assets of the Internet in Spain.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This research was designed to explore the opinions held by primary school pupils about the Internet as a source of assets for health and well-being.
  
  
  METHODS
  A qualitative study was carried out based on 8 focus groups comprising 64 pupils from 8 primary schools in Spain.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Our findings describe the Internet as a tool for learning, communication, fun and health care. In addition, they reveal how children understand influences on health and well-being in relation to their view of the Internet. The results are discussed in terms of the public-health implications of digital literacy, as well as its connection to well-being, especially in relation to health assets.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Internet is an important resource for children's health and well-being, which, through learning, communication, fun and health care, encourages them to make use of it. Digital and health literacy constitutes the foundation required for browsing the Internet in a positive way, as identified by the children interviewed in this study, and especially in relation to the health assets that the Internet can contain.
authors.affiliation: Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain, mariano.hernan.easp@juntadeandalucia.es.
authors.forename: Mariano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hernán-García
authors.forename: Blanca
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Botello-Díaz
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Marcos-Marcos
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Toro-Cárdenas
authors.forename: Eugenia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gil-García
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D003142:Communication; D032882:Comprehension; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D015438:Health Behavior; D057220:Health Literacy; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012574:Schools; D013030:Spain; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data