Making Quality Health Websites a National Public Health Priority: Toward Quality Standards

Making Quality Health Websites a National Public Health Priority: Toward Quality Standards

BACKGROUND Most US adults have limited health literacy skills. They struggle to understand complex health information and services and to make informed health decisions. The Internet has quickly become one of the most popular places for people to search for information about their health, thereby making access to quality information on the Web a priority. However, there are no standardized crit...

Making osteoarthritis a public health priority.

National, state, and local policymakers and society at large are paying growing attention to osteoarthritis. This movement is fueled by organizations and coalitions that are championing important initiatives. This article spotlights several initiatives sponsored by the Arthritis Foundation and other organizations.

Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority

Comparing the Quality of Latin American e-Health National Websites

This study proposes an e-Health taxonomy based on the assessment of 10 e-Health National Websites. The findings show that the degree of development of e-Health in Latin America is not homogeneous, they do not have the same standards, and they differ in their level of development. In general, the analyzed countries need to improve their e-Health initiatives in terms of diffusion, participation, ...

A model for public health workforce development using the National Public Health Performance Standards Program.

Workforce development programs in public health should link improvements in workers' performance with improvements in their agencies' performance. The "ten essential services" of public health provide criteria for measuring both individual worker training (as in workforce competency standards) and agency performance (as in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Public Health ...