Medicine Classification Research for a Health Web-Portal
Alvarez Barbero, Pedro (2010)
Turun ammattikorkeakoulu
2010
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2010091713084
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2010091713084
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This Document is a research project about collecting freely available health portals for nurses/patients and creating a webpage which links them in an easy-to-use way. The objective is to create a web directory and the steps that have to be followed and some other recommendations before start programming.
It also consists in an investigation about how the people use the internet for seeking health information, why the information is searched and the problems that are presented have when seeking the information, to see the importance of a proper design and structure of a web directory.
Moreover, it is included how to evaluate the health-related information web pages and how to rate them in order to avoid including useless Web sites on the directory.
The result is a classification of Medicine, in a tree organization schema that will be used as an orientation guide, when a medicine web portal is going to be developed. Explaining what important characteristics of a directory are and focused in the web sites 2.0 and giving details about the user services that this kind of sites should offer.
It also consists in an investigation about how the people use the internet for seeking health information, why the information is searched and the problems that are presented have when seeking the information, to see the importance of a proper design and structure of a web directory.
Moreover, it is included how to evaluate the health-related information web pages and how to rate them in order to avoid including useless Web sites on the directory.
The result is a classification of Medicine, in a tree organization schema that will be used as an orientation guide, when a medicine web portal is going to be developed. Explaining what important characteristics of a directory are and focused in the web sites 2.0 and giving details about the user services that this kind of sites should offer.