Nowadays Internet have become a major source of information about health and illness. Internet is increasing the number of users, providers and applications.
In health sciences, the growth of the Internet has created an explosion of sites that seek to provide information. An growing proportion of the population visit the health web sites.
The large volume of health information resources available on the internet has great potential to improve health, but it is increasingly difficult to discern wich resources are accurate, the veracity of content, responsabilities, and the way of communicating the information to the population.
With this poster we will discuss the need for Web-specific evaluation criteria.
The aim of this poster is to make a Web-specific evaluation criteria, using as a source the published criteria for specifically evaluating health related information, and identify areas of consensus. Evaluation criteria such as credibility, coverage, hypertext links, design, usability from human-computer interaction, information policies and ethical issues, and accesibility, will allow us to evaluate the health information.
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