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

Evaluating Health Information on the Internet Free Health Resources on the Internet E-Journal Sources Managing Internet Resources

Evaluating Web Information

• Criteria for Evaluation- 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 5 (excellent) to 1 (poor)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 crea5. 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

Website accrediting organization

Google Search: Dengue FeverCDC: 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/

Essential Health LinksThis is the AED/SATELLIFE Essential Health Links gateway that links to relevant WWW sites for the health community in developing and transitional countries.

Karolinska InstitutetThis the Karolinska Institutet’s Diseases, Disorders 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/

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

Other Sources of Health Information

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• 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

• 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 Resourceshttp://www.healthnet.org/essential-links/internet-

skills-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