Abstract
Despite the increasing use of online health literacy resources, scholars and practitioners assess Web sites based on readability measures such as sentence length, word choice, and other “print-centric” features to the exclusion of features unique to online media. In this article, we offer an alternative approach that accounts for multiple modes of communication and non-linear arrangement—features that characterize online media. To demonstrate this approach, we detail a recent project to redesign a cancer patient web portal. Included in our discussion of the project is a heuristic tool for designing web navigation as well as detailed examples of reworded content.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 293-312 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2 2014 |
Keywords
- Health literacy
- Web portal
- Web site
- cancer
- design
- language
- online
- readability
- semantic modeling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health(social science)
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Buchenot, A., Traversa, A., Comer, R. S., & Haggstrom, D. (2014). An Alternative to Print-Centric Design for Online Health Literacy: The Redevelopment of a Cancer Information Portal. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 18(4), 293-312. https://doi.org/10.1080/15398285.2014.952996