MedlinePlus Tutorial 2: How to Evaluate if Health Information is Trustworthy

Welcome to the video tutorial: "How to Evaluate if Health Information is Trustworthy" MedlinePlus offers you health information that is reliable. You can trust the information you find on the MedlinePlus website. But so often, we see and hear health information in the news on social media, and in books. And sometimes we search for health information online using Google or YouTube. That can turn up lots and lots of results. Or, you may find very little on a health topic. How can you know if that information is reliable and trustworthy? Let's take a look at what MedlinePlus offers to help you evaluate if information is reliable. MedlinePlus has a health topic page that focuses on evaluating health information. Let's go and click on "Health Topics." And go to the section titled "Find topics A-Z" Next, click on "E" for "Evaluating Health Information." The health topics under "E" are in alphabetical order. Now we are going to scroll down until we see "Evaluating Health Information." And now we are going to click on "Evaluating Health Information." This health topic page on "Evaluating Health Information" will include resources with information to help you and your clients evaluate health information. It is so important to evaluate if the health information you hear, read, or see, is trustworthy. Here you will also find a helpful summary that explains why it is important to evaluate health information. It includes tips you can use when you evaluate. There are questions to ask yourself when you are trying to evaluate if health news stories, social media, websites, and even books, are offering reliable information. Getting into the habit of evaluating health information is important, and MedlinePlus can help you do that.