Rowena Cullen

Health Information on the Internet (eBook, PDF)

A Study of Providers, Quality, and Users

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The accessibility of health information on the Internet has revolutionized access to clinical information for health practitioners and patients. This access to information has the potential to make a major contribution to health care. However, the effective use of this accessibility depends on an understanding of all the issues involved, from the underlying technologies and economic pressures, to questions of how best to manage quality and privacy, how people seek and use information, and what the barriers to its use are. Cullen's book also examines the extent of health information on the Internet, the providers of websites and their content, and outlines the nature of the paradigm shift affecting knowledge in the health sector.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313068096
• Artikelnr.: 37818211

Autorenporträt

Rowena Cullen is Associate Professor in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Preface
1 Health Information on the Internet
2 The Structures of Knowledge Related to Health Information on the Internet
3 Accessing Health Information on the Internet
4 Quality
5 Physicians and Other Health Professionals' Use of the Internet
6 Consumer Health Information on the Internet
7 Telemedicine and Online Medical Services
8 Future trends and challenges
Bibliography
Index