[Content informatics and professional analysis of Hungarian health-related websites].

INTRODUCTION

The number of health-related homepages is increasing and their content is exceeding. The visitor, let him/her be a private visitor or an expert, a patient or relative would like to access relevant data, trust the accuracy and up-to-date state of the web content. It is in the nature of these kind of services, that visitors would share their question and remarks with the authors specialized in a particular topic. Among others these circumstances led to the format and content-related regulation of websites.

OBJECTIVE

In a nationwide research the authors examined, to what extent the Hungarian sites meet the requirements of the Health on Net codification and the criteria of the European Union Committee.

METHOD

By studying the quality criteria-related websites, the authors examined each Hungarian website to see how the Hungarian pages live up to the regulations. The work concentrates on the content, but it does not neglect functional analysis either.

CONCLUSION

The authors conclude, that in spite of shortcomings, home webpages aim to keep the directives of the European Union.