Analyzing The Credibility Of A Website Assessment

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¶ … Credibility Identify And Evaluate A Website For Credibility

The website chosen for evaluation is http://www.kidshealth.org. The website offers information regarding the health of teenagers and children in a way that is easy for them to comprehend. The website's homepage is divided into four distinct categories to suit the parents, kids, teens, and educators. This makes it easy to navigate within the site depending on who visits the website. For information regarding health, development, and behavior, the website claims it is the most visited site. The information provided on the website is related to teenagers, kids, and all the advice offered is geared towards these age groups. The website can be easily found using Google search engine by typing kid's health, children health, or teenager health. The ranking of the website is high on the search engine, and this does confirm the claim that the website is the most visited site in matters related to teenager and children health. The web address of the website follows the HTTP pattern and it uses a .org domain, which is mostly used by non-profit organizations. The Nemours Foundation owns the website, which is a non-profit children health organization. The organization cares for children health and operates children hospitals in different states. Nemours is involved in research, advocacy, and education that is world changing. The website also contains physician-reviewed information regarding children's health. Kids Health has been placed in the top 100 list of trusted health websites by the online library Caphis,...

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The website has an editorial policy that enables it editorial staff to translate medical information in a language that the readers will easily understand. There is a review process that all materials published on the website have to undergo. Pediatricians and medical experts in different areas conduct the review process. The partners' page of the website contains a list of organizations that offer doctor-reviewed content for the website. All the information presented in the website is comprehensive and meets the needs of the categories targeted by the website. The information published on the website is current and regularly updated. There is no bias in the presentation of information on the website. The only time this has not been observed is when the topic being discussed only affects one gender or race.
The website's navigation has been categorized to suit the four distinct groups, which makes it easy for a person the information they are searching for from the website. The interface provided in the different sections suits the individual targeted for that page. The privacy policy of the website is located at the bottom, and it indicates the information collected by the website. It is clearly stated that the website does not collect any identifiable information, and the only information it collects is website visits and locations. This information is collected using cookies and is only used…

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Gilmour, J.A., Huntington, A., Broadbent, R., Strong, A., & Hawkins, M. (2012). Nurses' use of online health information in medical wards. Journal of advanced nursing, 68(6), 1349-1358.

Korfiatis, N., Garcia-Bariocanal, E., & Sanchez-Alonso, S. (2012). Evaluating content quality and helpfulness of online product reviews: The interplay of review helpfulness vs. review content. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 11(3), 205-217.

Sillence, E., Hardy, C., & Briggs, P. (2013). Why don't we trust health websites that help us help each other?: an analysis of online peer-to-peer healthcare. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference.


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