Meeting Health Information Needs
Consumers, health care professionals, researchers, policy makers and government agencies all need accurate, timely health information in order to make the best decisions about treatment, practice, behavior, health insurance coverage, and other issues. Each of these consistuent groups, or "users," has different access to, expertise in, preferences and reasons for seeking and using health information.
Our Methods
- We will identify the health information needs of our different consituent groups through the use of surveys, focus groups and literature reviews.
- Based on these findings, as well as the results of our systematic reviews of evidence, we will develop sample products (articles, fact sheets, videos) on topics of greatest interest to users.
- We will gather feedback from different user groups to improve and refine these information products.
Read about our progress in meeting health information needs.
