Web4health

Web4health is an advertiser-supported website that provides medical information under professional medical supervision.

History
In 2002, the Commission of the European Communities decided to allocate 990,000 Euro to a group of psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychotherapists to develop a web site with information about mental health, psychology and healthy living.

The web site first opened in July 2003 and has at present about 600 000 visitors/month reading nearly two million pages per month. Medical experts from Greece, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the Netherlands cooperated in developing the web site.

Services
The services of the web site are as follows:
 * About 1000 informational texts on various psychological and psyhiatrist topics.
 * Searching in the web site using free text search (Google Sitesearch), an own intelligent natural-language question-answering system, an A-Z index and a category index.
 * Visitors can send questions and get personalized answers from medical professionals in Swedish, English and Germany.
 * Almost the whole database of questions is duplicated in Swedish, German and English. Part of the data base is also available in Finnish, Polish, Italian and Greek.

Most articles are written by medical experts and sourced either by reference to scientific papers and books, or to the clinical experience of the participating experts. A few articles have been written by non-medical experts, but afterwards approved by medical experts before publication.

Since the end of the EU-funded period (July 2004) the continued operation of the web site has been financed by income from Google Adsense ads in the web site and by voluntary, unpaid work by medical experts.

Links to the site

 * Start page for the web site in English with links to the other languages.
 * More info about Web4Health.