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Evaluating personal health care and health promotion web sites
1Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, 747 Front Street, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA. jlang@saybrook.edu
Objective:
An exemplary sample of web sites relevant to personal health care and health promotion was chosen and evaluated.
Methods:
Both quantitative and qualitative data were converged to assess and rank the sites on nine attributes.
Results:
The sites provided a definitive range of value and variety of presentations, health care and health promotion information, and services covering the virtual choices currently available to users of the Internet.
Conclusion:
Discussion focused on methodological approaches and issues of web site evaluation serving the public interest, health care, and health promotion.
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