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About Us 

What we are
What we are not
Purpose and Mission of this website
Quality Guidelines
Quality Accreditations
Link and content modification dates
Commercial or medical claims by third parties
Disclosure of funding sources
Web Site Accessibility

What We Are

World Health Information (WHI) is an organization, which offers free health and medical information to consumers and professionals. WHI does so through its website www.worldhealthinformation.org. WHI provides you with the specialized directory search engine technology in the form of a 'metasite.' 

The WHI website is powered, and made possible by WebScroll^® from OmniScroll^®. Using the latest search engine software solutions, the WHI website provides a platform to include an infinite number of URL's of all quality health websites from around the globe.

Our directory is arranged like an outline, hierarchically, with major topics divided into smaller related topics to whatever level of detail is deemed useful. The web site links are listed at appropriate points along the way. There are many advantages to using a directory type of organization, especially if the person searching for information is unfamiliar with the health topic. The outline gives you a kind of conceptual 'map' of the topics. You can easily and intuitively browse both back and forward amongst the interconnected topics and information. 

Our website is known as a metasite. This means that we provide you with information exclusively from other websites. The health and medical information web pages WHI links to are provided by authoritative health and medical professionals, organizations, government agencies, and alike (.org, .gov, .com, .edu). The information is presented on their recognized, quality websites.

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What We Are Not

WHI is not affiliated with the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland.

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Purpose and Mission of this website

WHI aims to provide anyone with free health and medical information in a quick and user-friendly format. WHI is the first organization to introduce the use of 'WebScroll^®' to a medical directory search engine. WebScroll^®, which represents a breakthrough in web information management, is designed to help you confidently find and view health and medical information from around the globe.

The WHI website contains a collection of health and medical information from third party sources only. The WHI website does not contain original content written by the WHI editorial website team. WHI will show you your selected link before you leave the WHI website.

WHI wishes to remind you that the information, provided via our website, is to support and not to replace the relationship between a patient and the medical or health professional.

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Quality Guidelines

The quality guidelines we use in evaluating links to Web pages are listed below. Our selection team, which is comprised of Medical Practitioners with recognition and qualifications from Europe, North America, and Australasia, endeavours to apply these guidelines during the selection of our health information.

Quality, authority and accuracy of health information

• The organization's mission must relate to the goals of World Health Information.
• The organization must provide accurate, science-based information.
• The source of the content is established, respected and dependable.
• The information provided is appropriate to the consumer level, well organized and easy to use. Only information provided to professionals (under 'extra topics for professionals' or 'students') may be exempted from this guideline.
• World Health Information links to original content.

The primary purpose of the Web page is educational and not to sell a product or service. Most content is free and does not require registration.

• World Health Information requires a clear differentiation between content and advertising. There will be an advertising policy on the site. Advertisers must not play a role in selecting or editing health information.
• World Health Information will exclude organizations and Web resources if presentation or content could lead a reasonable user to believe that World Health Information endorses the products or services.
• World Health Information provides links to directories to help you find health professionals, services, and facilities. World Health Information does not endorse or recommend the organizations that produce these directories, or the individuals or organizations that are included in the directories.

Availability and maintenance of the Web page

• The Web site is consistently available.
• The Web site maintains its links to outside sources, to ensure that the user can continue to access the information.
• Links from the site are maintained.
• The source for the contents of the Web page(s) and the entity responsible for maintaining the Web site is specified.
• Information is current or an update date is included.
• Registration is not required to view the information on the site. An occasional exception is made for mostly professional web sites deemed unique and offering important information not found elsewhere. The results window will clearly indicate the need for registration.
• Payment is not required to view the information on the site

Special features

• The site provides unique information to the topic.
• The site contains special features such as graphics/diagrams, glossary, or other unique information.
• The content of the site is preferably accessible to persons with disabilities, in accordance with section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

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Quality Accreditations

WHI will preference links to web sites, which subscribe to the HONcode principles of the Health On the Net Foundation, or similarly recognized quality assessment tools and guidelines.

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Link and content modification dates

WHI makes daily modifications to the WHI link database. WHI endeavours to check its links regularly to ensure active links only.

No content of linked to websites is edited or managed by the WHI editorial website team.

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Commercial or medical claims by third parties

WHI endeavours to exclude links to websites where claims are made relating to the benefit or performance of a specific health/medical treatment, commercial product, or service. Where claims are made relating to the benefit or performance of a specific treatment, commercial product or service, these claims need to be supported by clear reference(s) to scientific research results and/or published articles. Third party websites are governed by their own Terms of Use, which are required to be displayed and available on the respective web sites

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Disclosure of funding sources

Advertising revenue is used to support, maintain and expand the World Health Information web site. At this time WHI receives no third party funding. Possible third party funding has no influence on the content of this website

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Web Site Accessibility

World Health Information provides the information using WebScroll^®. The technology behind this innovation was specifically designed to increase accessibility and usability. WHI confirms one limitation in that the Worldhealthinformation.org web site, at this time, does not work with non-Javascript enabled web browsers.

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