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 www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/evaluatinghealthinformation.html

5. Evaluation Checklist

6. Website accrediting organization

7. Google Search: Dengue Fever CDC: Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic 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, CDCDengue 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 FeverDengue Fever Factsheet with cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/dengue.htm - 13k - Dengue Fever - MainDengue Fever - Main Subscribe to denguefever news. www.denguefevermusic.com/ - 8k – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) are acute febrile diseases, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever 39k – WHO: Dengue and Dengue 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, MDeMedicine - Dengue Fever : Article by Daniel D Price, MD Dengue Fever www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic124.htm - 75k -

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 dir.yahoo.com/Health/Medicine Search Engines or Searchable Gateways/Portals INTUTE Intute.ac.uk/medicine/ Diseases, Disorder and Related Topics www.mic.stacken.kth.se/Diseases Essential Health Links www.healthnet.org/essential-health-links/ Health Sciences Online (HSO) hso.info

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. http://www.healthnet.org/esssential-health-links

11. 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 and includes the Google Translation option. http://hso.info

12. Karolinska Institutet ` www.mic.stacken.kth.se/Diseases This the Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics gateway. Users can link to specific websites by keyword searching, alphabetical listing or broad subject categories.

13. Health Information Resources Health Databases PubMed www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed Source Bibliographic Database: International Health and Disability www.asksource.info/Index.html Global Index Medicus www.who.int/ghl/medicus/en/ /

14. Health Organizations Resources  Governmental agencies  U.S. National Institutes of Health www.nih.gov/  U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention www.cdc.nih.gov  Inter-governmental agencies  WHO www.who.int  WHO: Western Pacific Region www.wpro.who.int  Non-governmental agencies  Popline db.jhuccp.org/ics-wpd/popweb  SatelLife www.satellife.org/  Family Health International wmww.fhl.org/en/index.htm Other Sources of Health Information

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. Other e-journals sources www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov www.biomedcentral.com www.freemedicaljournals.com highwire.stanford.edu/lists/devecon.dtl www.doaj.org www.dmoz.org/Health/ www.inasp.org/uk/ajol/index.html Further resources www.healthnet.org/essential-links/fulltext-e-journals.html

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 resources www.freebooks4doctors.com www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php www.medicalstudent.com/#MedicalTextbooks Further resources: www.healthnet.org/essential-links/fulltext-e-books.html

22. Freebooks4doctors FreeBooks4Doctors is a gateway with links to 600+ full text e-books.

23. Another useful gateway is the FreeBookCentre.Net We have opened the Medical Books category. Note that these links are organized by broad subject category plus there is a keyword Search engine.

24. Managing Internet Resources Bookmarks –What is a Bookmark? Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Favorites Internet Explorer Further Internet or Search Skills Resources www.healthnet.org/essential-links/internet-skills-for-health-information- users.html

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

26. Adding favorites 1 When you select Bookmarks or 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 2010 11