We are pleased to announce the list of the Top Ten Canadian Consumer Health Websites created by the Consumer Health Information Providers Interest Group (CHIPIG) and based on the survey we sent out in March. The list was presented as a poster presentation at the Canadian Health Libraries Association annual conference in Kingston in early June. If you submitted a website to our survey we thank you.
There was no clear favourite: the top 3 recommendations tied at 10 votes each. Submitted websites had different focuses. They tended to fall into a few categories such as women, children, disease-specific, and health promotion. We decided to compare the websites in each category and selected the ones that stood out. Because our choices were the best in different subject areas, we felt that we couldn’t rank them as 1, 2, 3. Instead we chose to list them alphabetically.
A copy of the poster as well as summary of the results of the survey can be found at our website: www.chipig.ca.
The websites that made it into the Top Ten for 2010 are:
AboutKids Health http://www.aboutkidshealth.ca
Canada Safety Council http://safety-council.org
Canadian Cancer Society http://www.cancer.ca
Caring for Kids http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca
Dietitians of Canada http://www.dietitians.ca/
Heart and Stroke Foundation http://www.heartandstroke.ca
Here to help http://www.heretohelp.bc.ca
PasseportSanté http://www.passeportsante.net
Sexualityandu.ca http://www.sexualityandu.ca
Women’s Health Matters http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca
Mary Anne Howse
June 28, 2010