Evaluating Health Information
Evaluating Health Information: Introduction
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Time needed to complete this module: 10 minutes
Learning Objectives:
- Identify strategies for fact-checking health information
- List different ways that researchers communicate health information
- Investigate health information sources for authority and accuracy
If you see health information you’d like to use or share
Stop
- Pay attention to your gut reaction
- Ask yourself “Should I take this material seriously?”
Fact check the information
Investigate the the source: You can slow the spread of misinformation
Stop misinformation image from Mythbusters (World Health Organization, undated)
This module includes advice from these sources and others
Stop, Fact Check, Investigate is based on Mike Caulfield’s Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers, That ebook was created with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License so it is freely available to share and adapt.