BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of telehealth on 1) the diagnosis, and management in obstetrics and cardiology, 2) health care costs from patients' perspectives, 3) attendance at health centres located in remote areas of Mali. METHODS The impact of telehealth on health care utilization, quality, and costs was assessed using a five-point Likert-scale based questionn...

This article explores evaluation issues in online consumer health information within the context of librarians as educators and intermediaries. Literature on Internet and health information seekers reveals that health information returned by search engines is generally accepted without critical appraisal. Reported and observational studies of users show a disconnect between what users say they ...

actions (e.g., exposure assessments, epidemiologic investigations, exposure registries, surveillance) that should be pursued in communities. Even with the efforts to measure exposure, the important question about latent, adverse health effects remains unanswered. As public health professionals in environmental health committed to protect the health of communities living near hazardous waste sit...

phytoremediation has gained increasing attention in recent years because of its ability to clean up and redevelop brownfield sites. petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated sites are among most prevalent industrial sites in iran as one of the top oil producers in the world, which are in great need of remediation to prevent associated environmental and human health risks. a greenhouse study was conduc...

Still nowadays social media is widely spread, it is recognized that general purpose sites support health issues sporadically only. In this paper, we report a user experience study of a Finnish health-oriented online social network service, Hoitonetti.fi and benchmark it to some other, comparable sites to qualitatively compare service palettes and to scope future pathways. In our research we hav...

The objective of this study was to examine the quality of dengue-related health information on the Internet. Three raters used the keyword dengue to search the Google, Yahoo!, and Bing search engines during August 2011. The first 20 websites from each search engine were examined for a total of 60 sites. Duplicate, nonfunctional, non-English, and nonoperational websites were excluded from the st...

waterborne outbreaks of pathogenic bacteria from contaminated water are serious threats forpublic health. coliform bacteria have been regarded as one of the most important indicators for monitoringpathogenic bacteria. to address potential pathogenic bacterial outbreaks, the distribution and diversity ofcoliform bacteria in jiahe river, which flows through densely-populated urban area in china, ...

Previous research has reviewed the quality of online information related to specific mental disorders. Yet, no comprehensive study has been conducted on the overall quality of mental health information searched for online. This study examined the first 20 search results of two popular search engines-Google and Bing-for 11 common mental health terms. They were analyzed using the DISCERN instrume...

Consumer health information has proliferated on the Web. However, because virtually anyone can publish this typeof informationon theWeb,consumers cannot always rely on traditional credibility cues such as reputation of a journal. Instead, they must rely on a variety of cues, including visual presentation, to determine the veracity of information. This study is an examination of the relationship...