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Web-based interventions (WBI) are purposefully developed online programs designed for wide range of users (clients, patients, health care specialists, as well as medical practitioners) which allow obtaining and using information on various issues related to health maintenance and improvement.On the basis of the analysis of scientific literature, the article provides an overview of WBI types and components, as well as a structural model of WBI and its user in the context of environment factors. The possibilities of using WBI for developing long-term health literacy of individuals are specified. By summarising the main advantages and limitations of using WBI, the possible suggestions for the WBI use and development are offered. Keywords: web-based intervention, information literacy, health literacy, advantages and limitations, health literacy development In the Information Age when the amount of information is constantly increasing, it is not only required from an individual to know how to use new technologies, but he/ she must also possess skills to select and evaluate information according to his personal and professional goals. These information processing skills become extremely important during the process of education, especially during oneís studies at the university. To provide a qualitative study process it is equally important for both parties (lecturers and students) to supplement and purposefully structure their knowledge and competences, which nowadays is impossible to picture without intensive use of global network resources.Information literacy has become a topical issue of scientific discussion since the appearance of first computers, primarily interpreted as effective possibility of information search, intentional selection of information sources, as well as a skill to transfer the searched information to others (Webber & Johnson, 2000). Information literacy is often reduced to computer literacy / e-literacy or the so-called media literacy. Nevertheless computer literacy is only one of the elements of information literacy and is an integral part of contemporary educational and cultural environment (Ivanovic, 2014). In the study process, information literacy is interpreted as the ability to select and use only

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In Latvia, the learners of secondary school as a requirement gets acquainted with basics of research – selection of literature, data collection and processing, communication and presentation skills.The present article deals with an analysis of the themes and texts (corpus) of the research papers (RP) in Health Science worked out by the authors of the top-ranked RP presented in the Scientific Conference of High School Learners of Latvia from 2016 to 2019. A logical inductive content analysis of features specific to each RP, and sequential categorization and grouping into a higher level of components were performed. The quantitative data were processed by using AntConc, IBM SPSS Statistics 22 and Microsoft Excel software.The aim of the research was to find out the themes and content variations of RP, and the characteristics of the language – tokens, types and keywords.The results show that there is a thematic uniformity in RP. The statistical characteristics of language differ in terms of lexical diversity and the frequency of keywords and their collocations. Mostly individual keywords dominate.The results obtained can be used to develop recommendations for learners and teachers as a model for theme selection, presentation of research and criteria for evaluating RP.