국내 인터넷상의 비만건강정보에 대한 평가 연구 = Evaluation of Obesity Health Information Internet Sites in Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The interest is closely related to the lives of modern people in the .21st Century. Exchanging information with others over the interest in any place through is possible nowadays and such exchanging information has been developed at rapid speed also in the areas of health and medical care. With increasing interest in their health, the tendency is that the number of the Internet users is on the increase.
Such being the case, it has become urgently necessary to assess whether all information regarding health, medical care, products and services offered over the internet benefit the Internet users and the right information can be searched for and accessible. Under such circumstances, they have already developed barometers for such evaluation both at home end abroad, and have been evaluating the sites but the evaluation findings have been negative.
This study was to evaluate sites ffering obesity health drawing increasingly keen interest of modern people and attempted to find out about the present conditions on such sites through their cross comparisons.
We selected 210 local sites (14 public organizations and association, 34 general hospitals and clinics and 162 commercial organizations) by searching for such key words as obesity and diet at Rankey. com providing rankings in each area. The sites were evaluated and analyzed on the basis of 21 items under eight evaluation criteria such as contents, authorship, purpose, design, aesthetics, functionality, feedback, confidentiality and public interest, and caught hold of quality levels and present conditions of the sites.
The research results showed most of the sites rated as short of expectation in respect of their contents and authorship, which amply attested to the necessity for the control of sites in the future as well as in the past. This seems to indicate that such control system as information certification system in the areas of health and medical care is required.