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determine health services as their basic services and through health services can support the
public’s health needs to ensure that the communities they serve have better public health, and
thus to have a positive impact on socio-economic development. The era of great health in China’s
social development determines that public libraries need to respond to the needs of the public, and
reflect the value of public libraries to society in the process of serving the society. Health services
will open new areas of public library services, and public libraries should actively participate in
the national health development strategy plan, incorporate health services into the service plan of
the public library, give full play to its own advantages, overcome existing disadvantages, seize
development opportunities, and meet the challenges of the new era.
Health services are new explorations in public library services in recent years. This article only
uses observations and analysis of several typical cases in the Anglo-American academic circles,
and lacks analysis of more extensive practical data.
The research results of this paper can provide reference and thinking for public libraries to open
up new service areas in order to meet their urgent public needs in the new era and to promote their
own development in the new services.
This paper uses the first-hand research materials to analyze the practice development of health
services for public libraries inside and outside the library academic circles. From the perspective of
the state, society, users and libraries themselves, the paper analyzes the necessity of health services
in public libraries in the process of developing Healthy China Program. From both theoretical
and practical aspects, the rationality of public libraries in health services is analyzed. The SWOT
analysis model is used to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges of public
libraries in health services.

Investigating the influential factors of consumer’s credibility judgment on
health misinformation

SONG Shijie, ZHAO Yuxiang, SONG Xiaokang & ZHU Qinghua 〇a ∗

Health information seeking has a long history. Health information empowers consumers to make
informed health decisions and plays significant roles in many health activities such as consumers’
self-diagnose, chronic disease management, and patient-physician communications. The
effectiveness of such empowerment is based on one common assumption, namely the information
quality. The accurate information could foster consumer’s informed health decisions, while
distorted information could lead to severe health crises.
However, in the Web 2.0 era, the quality of online health information is generally problematic.
There is considerable health misinformation existing on the Internet. First, this paper defines the

* Correspondence should be addressed to ZHU Qinghua, Email: qhzhu@nju.edu.cn, ORCID: 0000-0002-4879-399X