Most health articles on Wikipedia are about men's
health. I think you will
find lots of stuff still covered by good 'ol 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica,
except for the work done by the Medical Project, which needs more
volunteers and is of course ongoing. In cases where articles get lots of
traffic, they tend to be pretty good, but quite a long read. A friend was
worried about having her daughter vaccinated for HPV, something that is
done at school in my area for girls aged 13. My friend's doctor, a woman,
said off the record that she would not allow her daughter to get the
vaccine. Reading the Wikipedia article, I am not sure what to decide, and
it certainly doesn't seem at first glance to be at all a controversial
topic. I am not sure this article gives my friend all the information she
needs to make a decision.
On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:25 PM, Neotarf <neotarf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not sure that disaster response and
public health are mutually
exclusive, or how far non-specialists can get with this. In any case, the
disaster response consists of getting Wikipedia-based knowledge into areas
without internet, either as an offline resource via Wiki Project Med/App,
or a local internet connection, so, in any case, they can only provide as
much information as is already in Wikipedia.
Doing a spot check on children's health, individual articles that have
been adopted by WikiProject Medicine, like chickenpox and rubella, seem to
be well developed, but the navigation is hard to follow. There is a
category for "pediatrics" also for "children's health", but where
is the
navbox to tie everything together? What if you want to know something about
standard vaccines, for example, or psycho-social issues, or the reemergence
of polio in war zones. What if you want to work on or evaluate a series of
articles around a central theme, or you want information to care for your
own children?
Compare the extensive connection of articles at "Women's health" with
navigation templates at both the right sidebar and footer areas. Compare
also the pitiful coverage of "Men's heath", which a google search resolves
to an article about a Rodale publication of that name. A note at the top
of that article says "For health issues that apply specifically to men, see
men's health", which links to a pitiful start-class article with a somewhat
promotional tone, rated "low-importance" by Wikproject Medicine, that has
sported an incomplete tag since 2015. The "men's health" article only has
a navigation template for "reproductive health". There is a Rodale
magazine called Women's Health, but Wikipedia does not consider the
magazine to be the "primary topic" (WP:PRIMARYTOPIC) according to
Wikipedia's naming conventions. It has the secondary topic title format
of "Women's Health (magazine)" and an additional note at the top: "It
is
not to be confused with the academic journals, Women's Health Issues
(journal), or Journal of Women's Health."
And where is "domestic violence" or "sexual assault" in the men's
health
roster? Are these women's topics only? For that matter, where is
"prostate-specific antigen blood test". You can find more information about
these topics on reddit than on Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pediatrics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Children%27s_health
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_health
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_Health
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_health
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Health_(magazine)
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 10:58 PM, J Hayes <slowking4(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, if you wanted a case study of what implicit
bias looks like, just
look at health care.
It is good working on disaster response, but the vital chronic public
health topics are relatively neglected.
This infant sleep article got elevated by our oclc friends. Much
criticism of the start by the librarians.
On Nov 1, 2017 8:41 PM, "Neotarf" <neotarf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Health professionals thinking about what belongs
in an educational
video might want to walk down the hall to the outpatient department and see
what kind of films are being shown to family members while they wait. Who
knows, there might even be something out of copyright that can be made
available to the public. If obstetrics is being described in terms of
storks (what, no cabbage patch?) then pediatrics on Wikipedia is even more
dismal. I wondered about this article on infant sleep training and why it
is assigned to women's health project. Does Wikipedia recognize no
difference between gynecology and pediatrics?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Infant_sleep_training And then I
realized there is no project for pediatrics. With the medicine project
developing the offline Kiwix application that can be used by practitioners
who treat refugees and populations in the developing world, this seems like
a knowledge gap that has huge implications for maternal and infant health
worldwide.
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:34 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Noting that the discussion has now closed with the video being
> removed.
>
> Risker/Anne
>
> On 29 October 2017 at 14:50, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> It would be nice to have some women weighing on this debate:
>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Abortion#RfC_regarding_video
>>
>>
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