Health On the Net Foundation: For Patient/Individuals

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The Health On the Foundation (HON), created in 1995, is a not-for-profit International Swiss Organization. HON's mission is to guide lay persons or non-medical users and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health information. HON provides leadership in setting ethical standards for Web site developers. (Read more about HON)

For Patients/Individuals

Medical Professionals

Web Publishers

33'000 terms to quality sources: HONselect

HON Dossier

Catalogue of MEDLINE's scientific articles -Pre-formulated complex query to MEDLINE-, Web sites, daily news and conferences organized in terms of the MeSH classification with its 33'000 terms in English, French and German.

Mother and Child	Hepatitis B
Allergy Glossary	Rare Diseases
Vision and Eye care FAQ	Ageing

Daily News

Consult Daily News offering entire medical articles.

Full text search engine: MedHunt

Improved quality of information: HONcode

HON Code of Conduct (HONcode): eight ethical management principles dedicated to raise the awareness and the trustworthiness between medical Web editors and visitors. (Available in 17 languages)

Multimedia center: HONmedia

Hosting

Over 2,000 illustrations on 1,400 topics selected by HON from various sources.

Visit HONmedia

www.stop-tabac.ch	www.sans-douleur.ch
www.swissvips.ch

HON Projects	Surveys: E-health trends
Consult all our projects	Individuals' and healthcare professionals' experience of the medical Internet. Consult the results

The Foundation expresses its special thanks to the organizations and individuals that have contributed funds and support for our work. The major sponsors of Health On the Net Foundation are Sun Microsystems, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the State of Geneva.

http://www.hon.ch/Patients/review.html

Last modified: Wed Jan 31 2001