Smith Michelle, Morita Haruka, Mateo Katrina F, Nye Andrea, Hutchinson Carly, Cohall Alwyn T
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Health Promot Pract. 2014 Sep;15(5):664-74. doi: 10.1177/1524839914530401. Epub 2014 Apr 16.
The process of creating a geographically tailored health information website with ongoing feedback from community members is one of inquiry and discovery, frustration and triumph, and development and reevaluation. This article reviews the development and implementation of GetHealthyHarlem.org, a health literacy level-appropriate consumer health information website tailored to consumers in Harlem, New York City. From 2004 to 2009, the Harlem Health Promotion Center, one of 37 Prevention Research Centers in the United States, sought to determine the use and seeking of online health information in Harlem, New York City in order to further explore the possibility of providing online health information to this community. Specifically, this article details how we sought to identify gaps, concerns, and uses of online health information and health care seeking in this local, predominantly racial and ethnic minority population. We review how we identified and addressed the multitude of variables that play a role in determining the degree of success in finding and using online health information, and include discussions about the genesis of the website and our successes and challenges in the development and implementation stages.
创建一个根据地理位置定制的健康信息网站，并不断从社区成员那里获取反馈，这个过程充满了探索与发现、挫折与成功、发展与重新评估。本文回顾了GetHealthyHarlem.org网站的开发与实施情况，这是一个针对纽约市哈莱姆区消费者的、健康素养水平适宜的消费者健康信息网站。2004年至2009年期间，哈莱姆健康促进中心作为美国37个预防研究中心之一，试图确定纽约市哈莱姆区居民对在线健康信息的使用和需求情况，以便进一步探索向该社区提供在线健康信息的可能性。具体而言，本文详细介绍了我们如何试图识别该本地主要为少数种族和族裔人群中在线健康信息的差距、关注点和用途，以及他们寻求医疗保健的情况。我们回顾了如何识别和解决在确定查找和使用在线健康信息的成功程度方面起作用的众多变量，并讨论了该网站的起源以及我们在开发和实施阶段的成功与挑战。
