Source-based health education. Sources read 13 October 2026. No individual medical advice or claim of clinical review.
Identify the organisation
NCCIH’s website-evaluation module asks who operates and pays for a health website. Start with the About page and read the named organisation precisely. A trading name, a domain and an individual author need not identify the same responsible entity. Missing ownership should remain an evidence gap.
Follow the money without guessing
Record funding or commercial relationships only when disclosed. Advertising, product sales and sponsorship can coexist with educational content, but a payment button alone does not reveal every relationship. Keep the source of each observation: the site’s disclosure, the article label or a named external record. Do not accuse a publisher of undisclosed sponsorship because the design looks commercial.
Use the purpose to frame questions
Ask what the specific page is trying to achieve: explain a topic, describe an offer or persuade a reader to take an action. Then compare that purpose with the evidence supplied. An educational-looking layout does not settle the answer. The useful outcome is a transparent ownership-and-purpose note that tells another reader what was established, what was merely visible and what remains unknown.
Source and scope: Original public-agency guidance, read 13 October 2026. United States public-agency education. Practical worksheets and reading methods above are editorial interpretation, not a tested clinical tool.
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