A call for a moratorium on the. health generic top-level domain: Preventing the commercialization and exclusive control of online health information

Globalization and Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mackey, Tim K ^a,b   Eysenbach, Gunther ^c,d   Liang, Bryan A ^a,b   Kohler, Jillian C ^e   Geissbuhler, Antoine ^f,g,h   Attaran, Amir ⁱ  

^a Global Health Policy Institute   (United States)

^b School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^g Health on the Net Foundation   (Switzerland)

^h Student and Emerging Professionals Special Interest Group   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Domain names; eHealth; Global health governance; Health Internet; Information technology; Internet

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH; STAKEHOLDER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCREDITATION; APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDER; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH GENERIC TOP LEVEL DOMAIN NAME PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ONLINE SYSTEM; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; WEB BROWSER; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INTERNET; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MARKETING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARDS; TELEMEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GLOBAL HEALTH; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; MARKETING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TELEMEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84907278541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-014-0062-z     Document Type: Article

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