Tutorial 2—It's Your Health

Do you have questions about your health or the health of a person you care for? If so, how do you find information that you can trust and that's right for you?

Your best source of information is your personal doctor or another licensed healthcare provider. Professionals on your own healthcare team know you, your medical history, and your medications.

That being said, carefully selected consumer health information [http://www.healthinfoiowa.org/tutorials/glossary.html#CHI] from the Web may help you:

• Understand more about a condition or a treatment.
• Ask your doctor, pharmacist or other healthcare provider more informed questions.
• Take good care of yourself and the people you care about.

Goals of this tutorial

• Tell the difference between reliable and unreliable sources of health information.
• Use effective "finding" tools like HealthInfoIowa and MEDLINEplus.
• Take advantage of health information resources available to people in Iowa.
• Work information you do find into an overall health plan for yourself and your family.

As you go through this tutorial, you'll explore other sites on the Web. To return to the training tutorial, click on your browser's back button.

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Updated: 28 February 2001