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Health Education Sites
Whether you are a
student, teacher or anyone interested in researching
health issues, it is important to choose sites which
provide honest and ethical information. The first few
sites below will help you understand how to evaluate
health and medical websites. The other sites will provide
links to sites which are considered dependable and
accurate.
Evaluating Health and Medical Web Sites
Eighty agencies and organizations from twenty-five
countries recently searched the World Wide Web on the
occasion of the First International Health Claim Surf Day
for data on six elements: arthritis, cancer, diabetes,
heart disease, HIV/AIDs and multiple sclerosis. The
search turned up more than 1,200 sites which contained
misleading or potentially false information! (Today's
Chemist at Work, 8, No. 2,12 (1999)
HealthWeb Linking You to the Best in Health
Information
This link takes you to the page which specifically
provides information on evaluating health based web
sites. The reading selections also provide links to
reliable and reputable health sites. Going to the home
page for HealthWeb provides the reader with further menu
options to access health education information. http://healthweb.org/
Quackwatch: Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery and
Intelligent Decisions
A guide to help education consumers about use of the
Internet for finding valid health information and
avoiding scams. http://www.quackwatch.com/index.html
Links to Sites with Reliable Health Education
Information
Healthfinder
US government links to dependable consumer health
information.
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Biosites
BioSites is a current listing of important Internet
resources in the biomedical sciences. The sites evaluated
here have been selected as part of a collaborative
project by staff in the Resource Libraries within the
Pacific Southwest Region of the National Network of
Libraries of Medicine. http://www.library.ucsf.edu/biosites/
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
Takes research and communicates it into information for
every person's healthy living.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/
National Institutes of Health
Guide to health resources on the Internet and numerous
other information pieces and links. http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/
US Census Bureau
For health? Provides health statistics valuable for
researching health status indicators. The specific
reference below can provide data by state.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
National Center for Health Statistics
More health status indicator data, AND some health
profession employment opportunities.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/
National Center for Disease Control
Various health topic information pieces.
http://www.cdc.gov/
American Medical Association
Health and fitness information section is a good place
for general health education - the journals and news
section can help as a starting point for research.
http://www.ama-assn.org/
Dr. Koop's Community
Full of reliable health information, whether for the
general browser or a person beginning serious research.
http://www.drkoop.com/
Healthlinks University of Washington web site with
great depth for your health information investigation.
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/
