Use of a community-based touch-screen public-access health information system
Jones, R.B.; Navin, L.M.; Murray, K.J.
Health Bulletin 51(1): 34-42
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0374-8014 PMID: 8432637 Document Number: 406520
An assessment of "Healthpoint", a community computer-based health education programme, accessed on touch-screens mounted in wooden 'video arcade' type boxes located in various community sites (e.g. a shopping centre, supermarket, library, pub) as well as health service sites (hospital out-patients and general practice) in Glasgow and Clydebank, Scotland, during 1991. The authors assessed the use of Healthpoint (and thus to some extent the raising of awareness of health issues) rather than any evidence that the users learnt anything or took any action as a result. The authors estimated that 17% of the population of Clydebank had used one of the Healthpoints and 29% of attenders at a Health centre had used a Healthpoint. Joanna Goodrich.