Searching and Clssification of datum about constitutional medicine in the internet

인터넷에서 사상체질 관련 자료 검색 및 분류

  • Joo, Jong-Chon (Department of Sasang Constitutional Medicine, College of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University.) ;
  • Lo, Hyun-Soo (Department of Sasang Constitutional Medicine, College of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University.) ;
  • Song, Bong-Gil (Department of Internal Medicine, College of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University) ;
  • Lee, Byung-Ho (Department of Internal Medicine, College of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University) ;
  • Park, Sang-Gu (Department of Internal Medicine, College of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University) ;
  • Lee, Sang-Min (Department of Sasang Constitutional Medicine, College of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University.)
  • 주종천 (원광대학교 한의과대학 사상체질의학교실) ;
  • 노현수 (원광대학교 한의과대학 사상체질의학교실) ;
  • 송봉길 (원광대학교 한의과대학 내과학교실) ;
  • 이병호 (원광대학교 한의과대학 내과학교실) ;
  • 박상구 (원광대학교 한의과대학 내과학교실) ;
  • 이상민 (원광대학교 한의과대학 사상체질의학교실)
  • Published : 2003.08.30

Abstract

The internet contains enormous informations in various fields and therefore called 'sea of information'. It helps obtain quickly health related information including 'constitutional medicine'. But a lack of evaluation and oversight appear to result in inaccurate and misleading. So by using a series of equipment and www.naver.com, www.yahoo.co.kr, www.empas.com, the typical search engine for internet, the sites are researched by keyword 'constitutional medicine'. The results were classified into six groups as follows; The sites about pratitional Oriental Medical Doctor, private home page, advertisements of goods for health, associations of constitutional medicine, astrology or reading fortune, and etc. The internet is a useful tool that gives informations of health, easy and speedy, to users like as doctors and patients. But accuracy or reliabillity of this informations is mistrust. Especially informations of health are connected to safty of life directly, they must be verificated by the specialist and a criterion, that evaluate the sites it self, should be established.

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