Reliability health advice on the internet, a study July 23, 2010
Posted by drolarn in Uncategorized.trackback
A study looking into the reliability of Googled health information in answering common health questions has shown that governmental sites gave uniformly accurate advice. News sites gave correct advice in 55% of cases. No sponsored sites were encountered that gave the correct advice.
In my experience people tend to find the information or advice they were looking for, for example, parents who are strongly against vaccination will find info on why vaccines are bad, and largly ignore more authoritative information on vaccine safety.
Used wisely there is a lot of very good health information on the internet.
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