title: Information disparities of Taiwan's health Web sites by spatial variation.
abstract: This project study based upon 40 of Taiwan's health Web sites that belonged to teaching hospitals or medical centers. We divided these Web sites into north, center, south and east of Taiwan by their location. The five major research criteria were "Web site information credibility," "organization management," tailored content," "easy surfing" and "online interaction". Based on the study, we found that in general, Web sites that locate on the north had higher ratings than others Web sites.
authors.affiliation: Lab of Preventive Heatlh Informatics and SpaTial Analysis (PHISTA Lab), UT School of Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA.
authors.forename: Fang-Ying
authors.initials: FY
authors.lastname: Hsiao
authors.forename: Polun
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Chiehwen Ed
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Hsu
mesh_terms: D054626:Consumer Health Information / Q000145:classification* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011786:Quality Control; D013624:Taiwan; D014584:User-Computer Interface