Health Information on the Internet: A Study of Providers, Quality, and Users »

ROWENA CULLEN is Associate Professor in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington.

Cullen (information management, Victoria U. of Wellington, New Zealand) brings together the knowledge of various disciplines contributing to the development of health information on the Internet to address in one place the scattered professional audiences for such information--health informaticians, librarians, doctors, nurses, Web content managers, health-care managers, and others. Cullen addresses information needs and behavior and information sources directed toward practitioners, patients, and their caregivers primarily in Western, English-speaking countries. The volume is not a webliography of best sources but rather focuses on research and theory: Topics include where and how health information is found online; issues related to quality; the needs of clinicians and the needs of patients, and how they can best be met; and the growth of telemedicine. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR