Guide to Evaluating Health Information on the World Wide Web

The SPRY (Setting Priorities for Retirement Years) Foundation has created this hands-on guide to help older adults and their caregivers to evaluate health information available on the World Wide Web. The guide does not recommend particular sites, but provides tools to help users to determine which sites contain reliable information. This resource is geared to United States (US) users and provides links to US government resources.

The guide contains the following sections:

Part I: How Do You Find Reliable Health Web Sites?
Part II: Finding a Reliable Health Web Site
Part III: An Evaluation Checklist
Part IV: Health Web Site Issues of Privacy and Fraud
Part V: References and Contact Information

The guide is available online, or a print version may be ordered from Caresource Healthcare Communications.

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