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Chairman's welcome
Welcome!
HealthInsite is designed to provide you with information about your health, or the health of people close to you. Finding information about health can be difficult and the information itself can be hard to understand. So we have taken care to find information that is credible and useful, and of good quality.
Where does the information come from?
We actually provide very little information here on HealthInsite itself. Rather, we act as a gateway which links people to good quality information that we know about. To that end we have found credible sources of information, which adhere to strict criteria on the quality of the information that they provide. We check all this as carefully as possible before making it accessible to you through this site. Often, organisations who feel that they have good information to provide, approach us to become partners in providing information. They have to undergo a series of rigorous checks to ensure that the information they have is good quality, and they agree to make sure it is kept up-to-date.
How should I use the information?
We provide information that is not designed to replace your usual providers of health care. Rather, we hope to assist you in your quest for good health by supplementing the information that you can get from other sources. Very often people have more questions about their particular health problem than their doctors and other health care professionals have time to answer. Often, doctors and other health professionals refer patients to sites such as this to find information that they need. This is why we provide this service. We hope that you will be able to find information in an unhurried way at the depth that is exactly right for you, covering precisely the sort of information that you need. What is more, you can come back to this site at anytime whenever you want to get more information if you need it. We also encourage you to take the information you have found to your doctor for further explanation, or to talk about if and how it applies to you.
Can we make things better?
If you have some suggestions for how we can make this service better, please do let us know. You can use the feedback form to do this or contact us directly. We welcome any feedback from users of the site, and listen very seriously to what you tell us. In this way we hope to provide an even better service for you in the future. If you find our service helpful, please tell your friends about it, and perhaps even your own doctor or health professional!
Please enjoy searching through this site to find the information that you need and want. Happy surfing!
Dr Chris Del Mar
Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University
and Chair, HealthInsite Editorial Board
Role of the HealthInsite Editorial Board
HealthInsite Editorial Board membership
Page updated December 2004
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