Transcript Health Information on the Internet (module 1.3)

HINARI/Health Information
on the Internet
(module 1.3)
MODULE 1.3
Health Information on the Internet
Instructions - This part of the:
 course is a PowerPoint demonstration intended
to introduce you to Health Information on the
Internet
 module is off-line and is intended as an
information resource for reference use.
Topics
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Evaluating Health Information on the Internet
Free Health Resources on the Internet
E-Journal Sources
Managing Internet Resources
Evaluating Web Information
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Criteria for Evaluation
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Accuracy
Authority
Currency
Coverage
Objectivity
Criteria for evaluating Health Information
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/evaluatinghealthinformation.html
Evaluation Checklist
Evaluation Checklist - Short Version
Website URL:
Criteria
1. Validity/Relevance/Scope of Content (statement of purpose, description of
contents/scope/limits and intended audiences, citing of sources, meets users
needs, compliments other information and fits into broader field of knowledge)
2. Identification/Authority of Author/Sponsor (name, position, and training,
contact information; professional or organizational credentials)
3. Site Access and Usability (ease of connection and downloading, sponsor of
the site, access restrictions, freedom of use/replication, cost limitation,
software/hardware restrictions, text only option)
4. Information Structure, Design and Aesthetics (design meets users' needs,
clear and descriptive title and headings, clarity of graphics and icons, readability,
grammar and language editing, email address links, any irritating variables, the
use of crea
5. Navigation within the Document (organizational structures, menu design,
ease of navigation, indexes, tables of contents, concise pages, built in search
functions, online "help")
6. Quality of the Links (usefulness of links, organization scheme, visibility and
understandability, relevance and appropriateness, methodology of selecting links)
Total Score
LR 03/04
5 (excellent) to 1 (poor)
Website accrediting organization
Google Search: Dengue Fever
CDC: Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention presents detailed information about this mosquito-born.
www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/dengue/ - 37k –
Dengue fever, disease information, NCID, CDC Infectious Disease Information.
Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (Dengue Virus Infection).
www.cdc.gov/node.do/id/0900f3ec80006ce4 - 17k
Dengue Fever Factsheet with cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and
prevention.
www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/dengue.htm - 13k Dengue Fever - Main Subscribe to denguefever news.
www.denguefevermusic.com/ - 8k –
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF)
are acute febrile diseases,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever 39k –
WHO: Dengue and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever Includes cause, prevalence,
transmission, symptoms, treatment, and prevention.
www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs117/ - 24k –
eMedicine - Dengue Fever : Article by Daniel D Price, MD Dengue Fever
www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic124.htm - 75k -
Free Health Resources on the Internet
• Ready reference material
• Library Catalogues
• Journals - fee based subscriptions and open
access
• Bulletins, Newsletters
• Government Information
• Full-text documents including grey literature
• Research Databases
• Publishers’ Databases
• Discussion groups
Health Information on the
Internet
• Health Directories
– Yahoo http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Medicine/
• Search Engines or Searchable Gateways
– INTUTE
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/omnilost.html
– Karolinska Institutet’s Diseases, Disorder and
Related Topics
http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/index.html
– Essential Health Links
http://www.healthnet.org/essential-links/
This is the AED/SATELLIFE Essential Health Links
gateway that links to relevant WWW sites for the
health community in developing and transitional
countries.
Essential Health Links
This the Karolinska Institutet’s Diseases, Disorders
Karolinska
Institutet
and Related Topics gateway.
Users can link to
specific websites by keyword searching,
alphabetical listing or broad subject categories.
Health Information Resources
Health Databases
– PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/
– Source Bibliographic Database: International Health
and Disability
http://www.asksource.info/index.html
– Global Index Medicus
http://www.who.int/ghl/medicus/en/
Other Sources of Health Information
Health Organizations Resources
– Governmental agencies
• U.S. National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov/
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/
– Inter-governmental agencies
• WHO http://www.who.int/en/
• WHO: Western Pacific Region
http://www.wpro.who.int/
– Non-governmental agencies
• Popline http://db.jhuccp.org/ics-wpd/popweb/
• SatelLife http://www.satellife.org/
• Family Health International
http://www.fhi.org/en/index.htm
Searching within the NLM website
This is the National Library of Medicine
(NLM) database. It includes many
resources besides PubMed. You can
Search the site from the Search Box.
e-journals sources
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http://www.pubmedcentral.com/
http://www.biomedcentral.com
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
http://bmj.com/
http://www.doaj.org/
http://dmoz.org/Health/Medicine/Journals/
http://www.inasp.org.uk/ajol/index.html
further resources:
• http://www.healthnet.org/essential-links/fulltext-e-journals.html
HireWire Press free article database
This the HireWire Press free article database. Users
have access to over 740,000 full text articles.
FreeMedicalJournals.com
FreeMedicalJournals.com lists
journals sites that make their
content free to all users.
Journals are listed by A-Z,
speciality, and language.
BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an open access publisher
that makes access to published articles freely
available to the public. The journals are funded
by an author pays model.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a free archive of articles that
have been deposited in this free repository.
E-book sources
• http://www.FreeBooks4Doctors.com/fb/special.htm
• http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php
• http://www.medicalstudent.com/#MedicalTextbooks
Further resources
• http://www.healthnet.org/essential-links/fulltext-e-books.html
Freebooks4doctors
FreeBooks4Doctors is a gateway with links to
650+ full text e-books.
Fee-Based Internet Resources
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Reference Titles
Periodical Indexes
Electronic Journals
Electronic Text Books
Online Databases
Managing Internet Resources
• Bookmarks
– What is a Bookmark?
• Netscape
• Mozilla Firefox
• Favorites
• Internet Explorer
• Further Internet or Search Skills Resources
http://www.healthnet.org/essential-links/internetskills-for-health-information-users.html
Adding favorites 1
To add a page to Favorites click on
the link on the Tool bar.
Adding favorites 2
You can now give your new Favorite a name.
Adding favorites 3
When you select Favorites from the
tool bar, you can see that your page
has been added to the list.
This is the end of Module 1.3
This is the end of Module 1.3
There is a Work Book to accompany this part of
the module. The workbook will take you through
a live session covering the topics included in this
demonstration with working examples.
Updated 02 2008