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

5. Evaluation Checklist

6. 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 -

7. Website accrediting organization

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
INTUTE
Karolinska Institutet’s Diseases, Disorder and Related Topics
Essential Health Links

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 Information Resources
Health Databases
PubMed
Source Bibliographic Database: International Health and Disability
Global Index Medicus

13. 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

14. 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.

15. e-journals sources http://www.pubmedcentral.com/
further resources:

16. HireWire Press free article database
This the HireWire Press free article database. Users have access to over 740,000 full text articles.

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

18. 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.

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

20. E-book sources Further resources
Further resources

21. Freebooks4doctors
FreeBooks4Doctors is a gateway with links to 650+ full text e-books.

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

23. Managing Internet Resources
Bookmarks
What is a Bookmark?
Netscape
Mozilla Firefox
Favorites
Internet Explorer
Further Internet or Search Skills Resources

24. Adding favorites 1
To add a page to Favorites click on the link on the Tool bar.

25. Adding favorites 2
You can now give your new Favorite a name.

26. Adding favorites 3
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 1.3
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.
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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.