Searching when the stakes are high: better health decisions from search engines

该项目旨在通过改进搜索查询返回的信息，帮助人们通过搜索引擎做出更好的健康决定。80%的澳大利亚人使用谷歌搜索健康症状，尽管有证据表明，许多人经常找到不正确和不可靠的健康信息。该项目希望对人们为什么以及如何找不到有用的健康信息提供新的理解。该项目的预期结果包括评估高风险搜索的新模型和方法，以及帮助人们发现和识别高质量信息以做出更好健康决策的新搜索技术。这应该会为澳大利亚的健康消费者和医疗保健系统带来巨大的好处。

This project aims to help people make better health decisions from search engines by improving the information that search queries return. Google is utilised by 80 per cent of Australians to search health symptoms, despite evidence showing that many often find incorrect and unreliable health information. This project expects to provide new understanding about why and how people fail to find useful health information. Expected outcomes of this project include new models and methods for evaluating high-stakes search and new search technologies to help people find and recognise high quality information to make better health decisions. This should provide significant benefits to Australian health consumers and the healthcare system.