Finding And Evaluating Health Information

Before completing this assignment, review page 12 of the textbook

Choose a health condition or question that interests you.

Use Google (or other search engine) to search for information on the condition or question.

Choose 1 website to review and answer the following questions.

(a) What condition or question did you research? (1 point)

(b) What site did you choose to review? Please provide the web address. (1 point)

(c) What made you choose the site you did versus another site from your search results? (2 points)

(d) Who is the sponsor of the site – in other words, who runs it and who pays for it? (2 points)

(e) Who wrote the material on the page you read? Does it give information about the author? If yes, what information? (2 points)

(f) What is the purpose of the site? Who is the intended audience? (2 points)

(g) Does the site tell you where its information comes from? For example, does it provide citations and links to research? (2 points)

(h) Can you tell when the site was last updated? If yes, when? (2 points)

(i) Based on the questions above, and your overall impressions, how would you describe the reliability of the information on the site? Do you trust the information on this site? Why or why not? For this question, make you address how the following items influenced your opinion of the information on the site: (6 points)

1. Who runs the site

2. Who wrote the material (if you don’t know, does that influence your opinion?)

3. Purpose of the site

4. Where information comes from

5.When it was updated

6. Any other factors you used to determine how reliable the site is