Boyer C
Health On the Net Foundation (HON), 81 bd de la cluse, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Yearb Med Inform. 2010:72-4.
To evaluate the extent to which the Internet is accessed for health information and perceived as useful to varying groups classified primarily according to age.
Synopsis of the articles on education and consumer health informatics selected for the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2010.
A growing number of individuals are actively seeking health information through a varying selection of resources. The Internet is now seen as a major source of health information alongside with books and other means of paper-based literature. However, it is not clear how the Internet is perceived by varied groups such as those coming from differing age groups.
The papers selected attempt to obtain a better understanding about how the public perceives and uses the Internet as an information gathering tool-especially for health information. The papers also explore into how the Internet is used by different groups of people. As all online health information is not of uniform quality, it is important to access and rely on quality medical information. This issue is also dealt with, where the popularity of Wikipedia is measured with the popularity of reliable web sources such as Medline Plus and NHS Direct.
评估不同年龄组人群通过互联网获取健康信息的程度以及认为互联网有用的程度。
《国际医学信息学协会2010年医学信息学年鉴》中所选教育与消费者健康信息学文章的概要。
越来越多的人通过多种资源积极寻求健康信息。如今，互联网与书籍及其他纸质文献一样，被视为健康信息的主要来源。然而，不同年龄组等不同群体如何看待互联网尚不清楚。
所选论文试图更好地了解公众如何看待和使用互联网作为信息收集工具，尤其是用于获取健康信息。这些论文还探讨了不同人群如何使用互联网。由于并非所有在线健康信息质量都一致，获取和依赖高质量医学信息很重要。这个问题也得到了处理，其中通过比较维基百科与诸如医学在线加（Medline Plus）和英国国家医疗服务体系在线服务（NHS Direct）等可靠网络资源的受欢迎程度来进行衡量。
