The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health provides tools to assist in you in gathering information about health issues and interacting with health practitioners. 

Making Informed Decisions

Gathering information, thinking about options, knowing what it is you value and talking to a trusted health practitioner, will help you make decisions that are appropriate to you.

Go to Making Informed Decisions

Judging the Quality of a Health Website

Today, more and more people are coming to rely on the internet as a source of health information. Also health practitioners are finding that their patients are coming to them with questions about information that they have found online.

What should you look for to make sure the information is reliable? What are the key questions to ask when judging a websites quality?

Go to Judging the Quality of a Health Website

Understanding Medical Research

There are several types of medical research. Some research aims to learn what causes disease, or how to prevent or avoid getting sick; other research aims to improve treatments.

Learn about the risks and benefits of medical research.

Go to Understanding Medical Research

Content Updated October 20, 2008