Overview

There is a wealth of health information on the Internet. Today’s students of health studies and all health care professionals must be able to use this valuable resource and extract from it what is most relevant and useful. In order for them to do this purposefully and skilfully, they need to have a thorough understanding of how the system works and have the ability to navigate their way around it with ease. The Essential Guide to the Internet for Health Professionals is a superb photocopiable resource for lecturers and a self instructional guide for students. It shows students how to: get online; navigate the World Wide Web; find health information on the Internet; communicate with other health professionals; access free health and medical resources; publish on the web; use online help with health studies assignments; search for jobs. Each unit contains easy-to-follow activities and photocopiable worksheets.

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Chellen clearly shows how to get online; navigate the Web; find health information on the Internet; communicate with other health professionals via e-mail or by joining discussion groups, mailing lists, etc.; access free health and medical information; publish on the Web; use online help with health studies assignments; and search for jobs. <br>- Choice <br> This interactive beginner's handbook and wonderful 'self-paced' guide contains easy-to-follow activities and 17 worksheets that can be photocopied. It offers readers a number of opportunities to practice what they have just read with clear, understandable reproductions of screen shots....The Essential Guide is for anyone, health professional and consumers alike. Recommended. <br>- Choice <br>

Chellen clearly shows how to get online; navigate the Web; find health information on the Internet; communicate with other health professionals via e-mail or by joining discussion groups, mailing lists, etc.; access free health and medical information; publish on the Web; use online help with health studies assignments; and search for jobs. - Choice This interactive beginner's handbook and wonderful 'self-paced' guide contains easy-to-follow activities and 17 worksheets that can be photocopied. It offers readers a number of opportunities to practice what they have just read with clear, understandable reproductions of screen shots....The Essential Guide is for anyone, health professional and consumers alike. Recommended. - Choice

Chellen clearly shows how to get online; navigate the Web; find health information on the Internet; communicate with other health professionals via e-mail or by joining discussion groups, mailing lists, etc.; access free health and medical information; publish on the Web; use online help with health studies assignments; and search for jobs. - Choice This interactive beginner's handbook and wonderful 'self-paced' guide contains easy-to-follow activities and 17 worksheets that can be photocopied. It offers readers a number of opportunities to practice what they have just read with clear, understandable reproductions of screen shots....The Essential Guide is for anyone, health professional and consumers alike. Recommended. - Choice

Author Information

Sydney S. Chellen is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health, Canterbury Christ Church University College. He currently leads information technology teaching for students on diploma, degree and other postgraduate programmes.

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