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Scientific partnership between the Douglas Institute and PasseportSanté.net
2009-02-03
Web users now have an additional way of accessing the Douglas Mental Health University Institute fact sheets, as PasseportSanté.net has added a number of these fact sheets on various mental health issues, validated and approved by Douglas Institute experts, to its Web site.
More than a third of Quebeckers search the Web for health-related questions and this number will probably grow in the years to come with the increasing use of the Internet. People are becoming better informed and are always on the lookout for credible and reliable sources that will give them the information they need.
A useful partnership for Web users
For a number of years, both the Douglas Institute and PasseportSanté.net have provided information about health that is validated by scientists and written in a way that is accessible. The Web sites of the Douglas Institute and PasseportSanté.net are also both HONcode certified, an additional reassurance those sites will always respect the eight guiding principles of ethics and quality, as laid out by the Health on the Net Foundation.
“PasseportSanté.net is a Web site where people can get comprehensive information on a wide range of health issues. Naturally, these issues include mental health. It was therefore natural for us to turn to the experts at the Douglas to collaborate in this area,” said Claire Tanguay, Editor-in-Chief of PasseportSanté.net.
“The possibility of reaching even more people through an association with a high-quality site such as PasseportSanté.net helps the Douglas pursue its objective of educating people about mental illnesses and dispel myths and prejudices associated with them. We have to be reminded that one person out of five suffers from a mental health problem in our societies” explained Camillo Zacchia, Chief Psychologist at the Douglas Institute.
Find out more about mental health
Regular visitors to PasseportSanté.net will find out more about psychoses, schizophrenia, stress, borderline personality disorders, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, eating disorders, and sleep/wakefulness disorders (circadian rhythms).
More fact sheets will continue to be developed and added to the site. Anyone visiting PasseportSanté.net can also access the Douglas Institute site through these fact sheets for further information on mental illnesses or on the activities of the Douglas Research Centre, its Foundation, and its public education programs such as the Mini-Psych School or Frames of Mind movie series.
More than a third of Quebeckers search the Web for health-related questions and this number will probably grow in the years to come with the increasing use of the Internet. People are becoming better informed and are always on the lookout for credible and reliable sources that will give them the information they need.
A useful partnership for Web users
For a number of years, both the Douglas Institute and PasseportSanté.net have provided information about health that is validated by scientists and written in a way that is accessible. The Web sites of the Douglas Institute and PasseportSanté.net are also both HONcode certified, an additional reassurance those sites will always respect the eight guiding principles of ethics and quality, as laid out by the Health on the Net Foundation.
“PasseportSanté.net is a Web site where people can get comprehensive information on a wide range of health issues. Naturally, these issues include mental health. It was therefore natural for us to turn to the experts at the Douglas to collaborate in this area,” said Claire Tanguay, Editor-in-Chief of PasseportSanté.net.
“The possibility of reaching even more people through an association with a high-quality site such as PasseportSanté.net helps the Douglas pursue its objective of educating people about mental illnesses and dispel myths and prejudices associated with them. We have to be reminded that one person out of five suffers from a mental health problem in our societies” explained Camillo Zacchia, Chief Psychologist at the Douglas Institute.
Find out more about mental health
Regular visitors to PasseportSanté.net will find out more about psychoses, schizophrenia, stress, borderline personality disorders, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, eating disorders, and sleep/wakefulness disorders (circadian rhythms).
More fact sheets will continue to be developed and added to the site. Anyone visiting PasseportSanté.net can also access the Douglas Institute site through these fact sheets for further information on mental illnesses or on the activities of the Douglas Research Centre, its Foundation, and its public education programs such as the Mini-Psych School or Frames of Mind movie series.
