1. HINARI/Health Information on the Internet (module 1.3)

2. 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.

3. 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

4. Evaluating Web Information
Criteria for Evaluation
Accuracy
Authority
Currency
Coverage
Objectivity
Criteria for evaluating Health Information
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Since the Internet is a self-publishing medium, the information is not selected by professionals. Information retrieved from the Internet must be evaluated and analyzed for appropriateness for clinical and research purposes. Per the criteria listed in this slide, the key is to remember to use these basic evaluation tools when you view a website for the first time.
Many health sites explain the criteria used for including material within the website. For example, the Essential Health Links gateway reviews each potential link using a list of required criteria. See:

5. Evaluation Checklist

6. Website accrediting organization

7. 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 k –
Dengue fever, disease information, NCID, CDC Infectious Disease Information. Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (Dengue Virus Infection) k
Dengue Fever Factsheet with cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention k -
Dengue Fever - Main Subscribe to denguefever news k –
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 k –
eMedicine - Dengue Fever : Article by Daniel D Price, MD Dengue Fever k -
This slide is the first page of a ‘Dengue Fever’ Google search. We have highlighted (in red) the urls or addresses of this search as these are a key for identifying the reliability of each website.
The initial 3 citations are from United States governmental agencies (Centers for Disease Control and National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases) and are very authoritative sources. The description of these sites also summarizes the content. The urls of the last two sites listed also indicate that these are authoritative sources (World Health Organization and emedicine where the author/physician is listed).
The other two citations are not as useful. One is for a band titled ‘dengue fever’ and the other is an entry from ‘wikipedia’. Since the editing of wikipedia information is not restricted to health professionals, the accuracy and authority of this entry is not reliable.

8. 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

9. Health Information on the Internet
Health Directories
Yahoo
Search Engines or Searchable Gateways/Portals
INTUTE
Karolinska Institutet’s Diseases, Disorder and Related Topics
Essential Health Links
Health Sciences Online (HSO)
As previously mentioned, this is a vast topic that only will be addressed in a limited way. This initial slide highlights several broad tools that contain links to useful resources. When you have time, view these resources. The ‘Essential Health Links’ gateway will be used in this module’s exercises.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Health Sciences Online is a searchable portal with over 50,000 reviewed articles on courses, references, guidelines and other learning resources. It was launched in late 2008.

13. Health Information Resources
Health Databases
PubMed
Source Bibliographic Database: International Health and Disability
Global Index Medicus
For bibliographic databases, these three resources are invaluable tools for locating journal articles. PubMed is the premier health related database in the world and indexes over 4500 peer-reviewed journals. The Source Bibliographic Database and Global Index Medicus are geared toward health professionals in low-income countries. All three contain links to full-text articles when possible.

14. Other Sources of Health Information
Health Organizations Resources
Governmental agencies
U.S. National Institutes of Health
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Inter-governmental agencies
WHO
WHO: Western Pacific Region
Non-governmental agencies
Popline
SatelLife
Family Health International
This page highlights sources of useful information. Examples from governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental agencies are listed. Since most of these resources do not publish ‘peer-reviewed journals’, the bulk of the material is not indexed in any of the bibliographic databases. Again, by accessing these sites, you will get an understanding of the type of material covered.

15. 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.

16. e-journals sources http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
further resources:
In this course, we highlight HINARI as a resource for accessing e-journals. This slide contains the urls of other sources to full-text articles. The e-journals from many but not all of these options are accessible via the HINARI gateway or searches in HINARI/PubMed (Module 4.1).
Several of these websites contain ‘Open Access’ journals. In this publishing option, all users receive free access. After acceptance via the peer review process, the authors pay the publication costs (predominantly from grant funding). Once papers are accepted, this fee can be waived for authors from low-income countries.

17. HireWire Press free article database
This the HighWire Press List is for HINARI eligible countries and can be accessed directly since that is based on IP address.
Note that HighWire Press also has another list titled 'Free full-text' for users throughout the world.

18. FreeMedicalJournals.com
FreeMedicalJournals.com lists journals sites that make their content free to all users. Journals are listed by A-Z, speciality, and language.

19. 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.

20. PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a free archive of articles that have been deposited in this free repository.

21. e-book sources
Further resourceshttp:// links/fulltext-e-books.html
For clinicians and students, the Internet also is a source of access to full-text e-books. In most cases, the whole book or chapters can be downloaded as PDF files.
Per these examples, two are gateways (FreeBooks4Doctors, medicalstudent.com). The Hesperian site is a portal to clinical texts for primary health care workers.

22. Freebooks4doctors
FreeBooks4Doctors is a gateway with links to full text e-books.

23. Fee-Based Internet Resources
Reference Titles
Periodical Indexes
Electronic Journals
Electronic Text Books
Online Databases

24. Managing Internet Resources
Bookmarks
What is a Bookmark?
Mozilla Firefox
Favorites
Internet Explorer
Further Internet or Search Skills Resources
for-health-information-users.html
If you find Internet sites which are of interest and useful, you can use the “favorites” option in Internet Explorer or “bookmarks” in Mozilla Firefox. By clicking on the tool bar button, you will be given an option to save the website’s hyperlink. You can give the website a name and this will be retained in a list for when you next visit the web browser. To revisit the site, you click on hypertext link in ‘favorites’ or ‘bookmarks’ and you will be taken directly to the site. Also, you can organize your bookmarks into subject folders. The following four slides will summarize the ‘favorites’ procedures.

25. Adding favorites 1
In Mozilla Firefox, we are adding the HINARI link to Bookmarks. You can change the name of the link.
In Windows Internet Explorer, this function is called Favorites.

26. Adding favorites 1
When you select Favorites from the tool bar, you can see that your page has been added to the list.

27. 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.
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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.