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Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial
From the National Library of Medicine

  • This tutorial teaches you how to evaluate the health information you find on the Internet.
  • The tutorial has five sections. Use the navigation bar at the top and the arrows on each page to go forward or backward.
  • You can use this tutorial on our Web site or download Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial (PDF, 3.2 MB).
  • You can download a checklist for Evaluating Internet Health Information (PDF, 497 KB) to help you remember what to look for when you look at health information.

This tutorial reviews two examples of health information Web sites: 'Institute for a Healthier Heart' and 'Physicians Academy for Better Health'
These two examples of websites demonstrate how pages can potentially be arranged.


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