因特网——健康教育的第四媒体

因特网是近年来新兴的媒体，被称为第四媒体。因特网上的健康资源非常丰富，有很大的开发利用价值。本文分析了因特网作为健康教育媒体的优势，即资源丰富、个性化强、交互性强、可以重复、方便保存等，指出了网上开展健康教育存在的问题。

Internet-the Fourth Medium in Health Education

Internet is a new media; it is also called the fourth media after newspaper, radio and television. With the fast development of Chinese information technology, development and utilization of Internet are getting more and more important for health educators. Internet as a health education media has many advantages such as abundant resources, strong personification, interactive communication,can be easily saved and reproduced etc. Though there are some problems for health education to be widely developed on Internet at present in China, it has bright prospects in the near future.