| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立師範大學 === 衛生教育學系 === 86 === The main purpose of the study is to survey the health-related Web sites in Taiwan. We hope that we can improve the application of the Internet on health education by understanding the conditions of the health-related Web sites.The study adopts the use of a questionnaire to survey the health-related Web sites. Searching the WWW by the keyword "Health" of the "YamWeb Navigator-The TAIWAN Index"(http://www.yam.org.tw/b5/yam/), we find 353 Web sites with E-mail addresses to be surveyed. The study is divided into 2 parts: the "observation of the researcher" and the "reply of the Webmasters". The part of the "observation of the researcher" consists of connecting with the Web sites and conducting a survey by questionnaire. The part of the "reply of the Web masters" is to send E-mail, which contains hyperlinks to the author''s Homepage questionnaire, to Web masters so that they can answer the question on the page. The questionnaire of these 2 parts is the same. The results of the survey consist of various kinds of data of these Web sites and the author tries to discuss the strategy and suggestion of the application of the Internet on health education.The main conclusions of the study are as follows:1. There are a large number of health-related Web sites in Taiwan, which are resourceful on health education and the achievement. We can depend on them and we can absorb the experiences.2. The health content areas of the general health-related Web sites is synthetic, and the intended audiences isn''t specified.3. The health content areas of the various kinds of disease, specified population''s health and public health is insufficient, which should be reinforced.4. The purpose of the health-related is not only to serve but also to multiple.5. The large proportions of the health-related Web sites are belong to hospital and clinic, education and personnel''s Homepage. Most of the Webmasters are health experts and doctors who are the mainstream to participate in Internet health education and the publication of health information.6. The health content areas of the Web sites show significant differences by the institution, which Web sites, belong to.7. There is coherence of realization for the contents of the information between the providers and the consumers in Internet.After referring to the program of establishing the health education resource and internal related health education research, subject when executing health education information in Internet including:1. Enrich and reorganize health education source center in Internet.2. WWW system can be a successful tool in applying to health education and is worthy of wide-promotion and appliance.3. Health education specialists must learn about computers and acquire basic skills for using them.4. Popularize school''s Internet infrastructure to successfully complete health education movement in Internet.5. It should integrate the various levels of participators when executing health education in Internet.6. In the course of the internship of school health in health education, the electric media can replace parts of the print materials.For the services offered by Internet, this study only uses WWW system to preliminary understand the condition of the health-related Web sites in Taiwan. With the daily flourishing of Internet, applying Internet in health education will grow it''s importance and turn out to be a critical access. Through users efficiently operation in Internet, health education can be executed in variety and be more flexible in appliance. Further research could has a further survey toward the method of health education movement, such as health concept, intervention of health education, health behavior change and other internet service appliance method, and so on.
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