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.

Table of Contents Evaluating Health Information on the Internet Sources of Health Information 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

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 -

Website accrediting organization

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 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. Note the inclusion of the HonCode logo.

Karolinska Institutet This 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/

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 (U.S.) 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 Further resources 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 Resources http://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 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 01 2009 This is the end of Module 1 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.