Part II: Comparing Two Online Sources

Article: “Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage at Country and Global Levels”

Quality Impressions: Article is peer-reviewed, and clearly lists its authors and organizations. Similar to the website, ScienceDaily, the lengthy text is summarized at the beginning by an abstract. Though I plan to read the entire article, the abstract is helpful in preparing yourself what the content is to make sure it will be relevant to your research topic. The information is not biased, but rather a statement of the current condition. All references can be cited from the database citation generator and also in the body of the article itself. There is no distracting advertisements. This particular article was published on September 22, 2014 and is absolutely appropriate for printed publication as it was peer reviewed by scholarly professionals for scientific journals.

Compare: The biggest difference between the website I chose and this scholastic article from a database is that, the website is a collection of responses and summaries of scientific articles versus a single peer-reviewed genuine article. Of course, the ScienceDaily site links through and cites all source articles, and you are able to read part of them, but unlike the academic database, you cannot always read the full original text. Another contrast between the two is that the academic article is written in a bit more of depth, and scientific terms for a group of professionals in the same field whereas the bits on ScienceDaily are written for all persons with internet access. The group of authors writing in regards to universal health care in this particular article are experts in their field as it states their organization beneath their title: “Ties Boerma1*, Patrick Eozenou2, David Evans1, Tim Evans2, Marie-Paule Kieny, Adam Wagstaff2 [followed by] 1 World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2 World Bank Group, Washington, D.C., United States of America” (Monitoring Progress).

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Works Cited

Boerma, Ties, et al. "Monitoring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage At Country And 
Global Levels." Plos Medicine 11.9 (2014): 1-8. Academic Search Premier. Web. 13 Oct. 2014.