December 07, 2007
Women's Health Matters in Canada
Women's Health Matters (www.womenshealthmatters.ca) at Women’s College Hospital has created a guide to doing health research on the Web.
Women Wading Through the Web: A Health Toolkit is "to assist the many women who have asked us for help in navigating the often confusing maze of health information on the Web".
The toolkit (PDF format) covers:
+ How to use the Internet to search for health information: using search engines, subject directories, and specialty sites.
+ How to judge the quality of a web site
+ How to interpret medical research
+ How to understand media and web-based information
+ Recommended websites - principally Canadian.
There is also a discussion group at Women's Health Matters called "Le Club" with several forums on many health issues. The moderators are health research experts and can assist with suggestions on how to go about researching a question.
The toolkit and the discussion forums are excellent resources for Canadian women. Be sure to download the guide and browse the forums.
Kudos to the women’s health experts at Women's College Hospital for creating this site and toolkit.
There is a French language version of the website (not the toolkit) - Femmes en santé
Posted by Gwen at December 7, 2007 03:41 PM