Community partnerships for health information training: medical librarians working with health‐care professionals and consumers in Tennessee

Stephenson, Priscilla L.; Green, Brenda F.; Wallace, Rick L.; Earl, Martha; Orick, Jan T.; Taylor, Mary Virginia

doi:10.1111/j.1740-3324.2004.00498.x

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“…Oelschlegel, Grabeel, Tester, Heidel and Russomanno () reported a library's achievement in leading systematic assessment of health literacy in their organisation. Several initiatives in which librarians partnered with health professional and consumers to establish services and programmes for health literacy improvement were also reported (Murphy, ; Six‐Means, ; Stephenson et al., ). Through creation of comic books to help children (Tarver et al., ), creation of web videos for teenagers (Greenberg & Wang, ), hands on classes for adults (Arndt, ), lifelong education training (Wister, Malloy‐Weir, Rootman & Desjardins, ), community based outreach (Pomerantz, Muhammad, Downey & Kind, ; Scherrer, ; Watson & Brasure, ), regional and nationwide initiatives (Smith & Dumant, ; Turner, ; Wood et al., ) and symposium (Peay & Rockoff, ), the literature presents numerous examples of outreach and lifelong education services being rendered in libraries to enhance health literacy.…”

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Involving libraries in improving health literacy to achieve Sustainable Development Goal‐3 in developing economies: a literature review

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2019

Health Info Libraries J

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Background The Goal 3 (SDG‐3) of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) incorporates 13 targets that cut across pressing health concerns globally. Health literacy has however been linked to achieving good health in the society, and its improvement in developing economies could aid the achievement of SDG‐3. Objective The review focused on identifying actions that can be implemented by libraries to enhance health literacy and access to information among health care practitioners and consumers to support the achievement of SDG‐3 in developing countries, especially Nigeria. Method A literature search was conducted on reputable academic databases, namely sciencedirect, doaj, google scholar, pubmed and jstor. Similar keyword combinations were used to obtain articles, with filters set to search the keywords in article titles or abstract. Relevant criteria were used to screen the literature. Results Results from the literature searching were grouped under six themes that emerged from the literature. The value of libraries in health care was discussed, and suggestions were made for implementation in libraries. Conclusion It was concluded that libraries in developing economies have to take actions to improve users’ health literacy in order to become prominent stakeholders in the process of achieving SDG‐3.

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Involving libraries in improving health literacy to achieve Sustainable Development Goal‐3 in developing economies: a literature review

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2019

Health Info Libraries J

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“…Part of the mission of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) is improving public access to the information necessary to make informed health decisions, and libraries have been urged to reach out to low literate groups in the community [27][28][29]. The COIN centers are members of NN/LM and were developed with the conscious goal of increasing health literacy.…”

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Addressing underutilization of consumer health information resource centers: a formative study

Kennedy¹,

Kiken²,

Shipman³

2008

J Med Libr Assoc

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Triangulating findings from multiple data collection methods can provide useful guidance for efforts to promote center utilization. At minimum, steps should be taken to make the largest centers more noticeable. Because center utilization is not only associated with consumer satisfaction with hospitals, but may also foster health literacy, both hospital-based and community-based usage promotion strategies may be warranted. All such promotional strategies should be audience-tested before they are adopted.

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“…1–8 Early projects trained providers on the use of databases available at the time (GratefulMed), 4, 6 while later projects trained public health professionals ,2, 5, 7 and public librarians on effective search techniques and freely available resources to promote health literacy to consumers. 1, 3, 8…”

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HIV/AIDS Outreach: Curriculum Development and Skills Training to Health and Information Professionals

Kuntz¹,

Schaefer

Norton

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Medical Reference Services Quarterly

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With funding from the National Library of Medicine HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Program (ACIOP), librarians at the University of Florida Health Sciences Libraries partnered with university and community groups to facilitate collaboration, develop new information resources, develop information-seeking skills, and raise general awareness surrounding HIV/AIDS risks, prevention, and treatment. This article describes the skills development elements of the project, including development and implementation of an HIV/AIDS information resource curriculum for health care providers, social services professionals, and public librarians within the project's partner organizations.

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Community partnerships for health information training: medical librarians working with health‐care professionals and consumers in Tennessee

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

Involving libraries in improving health literacy to achieve Sustainable Development Goal‐3 in developing economies: a literature review

Involving libraries in improving health literacy to achieve Sustainable Development Goal‐3 in developing economies: a literature review

Addressing underutilization of consumer health information resource centers: a formative study

HIV/AIDS Outreach: Curriculum Development and Skills Training to Health and Information Professionals

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