Question

With practical examples in your explanation describe the processes of identifying reliable sources of health information on the internet.

Answer 1

Educating yourself about your health condition is very good opportunity to check out and rehabilitate yourself . Best place to get good health information is healthcare professionals . If you have such type of questions related to your health then ask or discuss it with doctor , pharmacist and health care professionals .

You can also ask questions to your health team that is better way to find out more ways to improve your health and get better understanding because it is their job to do that . Instead of that reliable health information found in pharmacies, doctor's clinics and community health center . Elsewhere you can't get better and proper helath education from other peoples .

Example :- like telephone helpline such as nurse on call .

- your personal doctor or pharmacist .

- reliable healthcare website such as government sites and local sites .

If you get information elsewhere from these sources that can be harmful to you or they will not tells you about the proper procedure to perform that . That gives an bad impact to your health .

Any one can make a website on internet but there are some tricks to get genuine and trusted site from where we can take help -

- source of information :- first of all we have to check who is giving the information is that relates to medical field or health care Professional.

- quality control measures :- we have to check the editorial board of the site . And to check that the provided information is reviewed by quality checking experts .

- level of scepticism about online health products :- any one talking about it works faster then others , results come soon at that time ensure that that is fake or real one .

- what is evidence :- check all evidence related to the product that show its genuineness . Don't trust testimonials that people you don't know .

- is your privacy protected :- if you provide your personal information to any body at that time you have to be ensured about the person to whom you provide information keeps your information safe or not .

- beware of bias :- who is funding and the purpose of site . If any company owns the website they will sell only their own products so take it into consideration .