Title: PAHO Workshop on Health Information and Virtual Media: Quality of Health Information on the Internet

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Section/SPIG: Health Administration

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Papers and presentations from the recent Pan-American Health Organization Conference on "Health Information and Virtual Media: Quality of health Information in the Internet" are available at <www.paho.org/English/DD/IKM/media-qi.htm>. The workshop took place at Puebla Mexico, May 8, 2003.

From the site: "Key themes included: Information quality criteria, quality and standards of health information on the internet, strengths and weaknesses of the major quality initiatives world-wide, knowledge exchange developments. The program concluded with a presentation of a Research proposal from the Information Center for Healthcare Decision-Making of the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico."