Theresa Devine|Jordan Broderick|Linda M. Harris|Huijuan Wu|Sandra Williams Hilfiker
Making Quality Health Websites a National Public Health Priority: Toward Quality Standards
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion|United States Department of Health and Human Services|Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion|Northampton Community College|Northampton Community College
background us adults limited health literacy skills struggle understand complex health information services make informed health decisions internet quickly become one popular places people search information health thereby making access quality information web priority however standardized criteria evaluating webbased health information every 10 years us department health human services office disease prevention health promotion odphp develops set measurable objectives improving health nation coming decade known healthy people two objectives healthy people 2020 related website quality first objective health communication health information technology hchit 81 increase proportion healthrelated websites meet 3 evaluation criteria disclosing information used assess information reliability second objective hchit82 increase proportion healthrelated websites follow established usability principles objective odphp conducted nationwide assessment quality webbased health information using healthy people 2020 objectives odphp aimed establish 1 standardized approach defining measuring quality health websites 2 benchmarks measurement 3 baseline data points capture current status website quality 4 targets drive improvement methods odphp developed national quality health website survey instrument assess quality healthrelated websites odphp used survey review 100 topranked healthrelated websites order set baseline data points two objectives odphp set targets drive improvement 2020 results study reviewed 100 healthrelated websites objective hchit81 total 58 100 580 websites met 3 6 reliability criteria objective hchit82 total 42 100 420 websites followed 10 19 established usability principles basis baseline data points odphp set targets year 2020 meet minimal statistical significanceincreasing objective hchit81 data point 705 objective hchit82 data point 557 conclusions research critical first step evaluating quality webbased health information criteria proposed odphp provide methods assess website quality professionals designing developing managing healthrelated websites criteria baseline data targets valuable tools driving quality improvement