Evaluation of Internet Web-sites Providing Infant Health Related Information for Daycare Staffs

Evaluation of dengue-related health information on the internet.

The objective of this study was to examine the quality of dengue-related health information on the Internet. Three raters used the keyword dengue to search the Google, Yahoo!, and Bing search engines during August 2011. The first 20 websites from each search engine were examined for a total of 60 sites. Duplicate, nonfunctional, non-English, and nonoperational websites were excluded from the st...

Infant-infant Interaction in a Daycare Setting

Quality of Health Web Sites: Dimensions for a Wide Evaluation

The use of a methodology for the evaluation, comparison and quality improvement of Health Web Sites is justified by its widespread adoption and visibility to Internet users. Due to the sensitiveness of their content and impact on users, health related sites should be evaluated. This chapter proposes three different dimensions for the development of quality evaluation methodologies of Health Web...

Published criteria for evaluating health related web sites: review.

OBJECTIVE To review published criteria for specifically evaluating health related information on the world wide web, and to identify areas of consensus. DESIGN Search of world wide web sites and peer reviewed medical journals for explicit criteria for evaluating health related information on the web, using Medline and Lexis-Nexis databases, and the following internet search engines: Yahoo!, E...

Participatory evaluation of the quality of health information on the internet: the case of dengue sites.

The world has witnessed a powerful and radical transformation of social, economic and cultural relationships promoted by the Internet. The Internet provides opportunities for access, dissemination and production of information worldwide. Health, for example, stands out as one of the main areas with information of interest to a growing number of users. However, this information is often unsatisf...