Healthy Libraries Develop Healthy Communities: Public Libraries and Their Tremendous Efforts to Support the Affordable Care Act

Collins, Lydia

doi:10.1080/15398285.2014.988467

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“…41 Other libraries have assisted patrons with applying for health insurance plans such as the Affordable Care Act. 42 Health information is also provided for children. Libraries in Shreveport, Louisiana provided children from low-income families with a web portal, activities, books and story hour with themes such as general wellness, germ prevention, nutrition, and exercise.…”

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Public Libraries: A Community-Level Resource to Advance Population Health

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Policy makers and public health practitioners rarely consider public libraries to be part of the health system, even though they possess several characteristics that suggest unrealized potential to advance population health. This scoping review uses an adapted social determinants framework to categorize current health-related work conducted by public libraries in the United States and to discuss libraries' potential as 'meso-level' community resources to improve population health. Our discussion of libraries contributes to scholarship on place-based health disparities, by emphasizing the potential impact of institutions that are modifiable through social policy-e.g., parks, community centers, schools-and which have a conceptually clear or empirically documented relationship to health.

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Public Libraries: A Community-Level Resource to Advance Population Health

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“…In response to the U.S. President’s call, ALA hosted a number of events during its 2013 annual conference to address ACA support preparedness. Following the conference, ALA formed a partnership with several organizations, including NN/LM and WebJunction, in order to prepare public libraries for the task [42]. NN/LM regional libraries (e.g., the Mid-Atlantic NN/LM Region) offered webinars and built websites to support public librarians in their efforts.…”

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“…Despite organizational effort at all levels, pre-rollout anxiety remained [42]. Many public librarians did not know what to expect.…”

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“…Others, however, conducted workshops and trainings, partnered with navigators and certified counselors from outside organizations, invited speakers, and created web pages with local ACA information resources on their websites [39,42,44]. For example, the Waukegan Public Library became a 2013 IMLS National Medal Winner for its effort to support the ACA’s rollout in Lake County, IL.…”

Section: Libraries Health Literacy and The Us Patient Protectimentioning

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Libraries and librarians: Key partners for progress in health literacy research and practice

Whitney

Keselman

Humphreys

2017

ISU

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The field of librarianship has a history of involvement in patient education, general literacy and information literacy efforts. This history and prominent placement in communities make libraries and librarians an excellent resource in advancing health literacy practice and research. This chapter provides an overview of health literacy and health information literacy efforts in US libraries over the past two decades.The chapter begins with the description of the role of the US National Library of Medicine in developing resources, programs, and partnerships serving health information needs of the public. It then overviews special training programs for increasing librarians' expertise with health information and health literacy support. The narrative also presents different models of health information outreach programs in diverse communities, focusing on serving special populations that may suffer from health disparities.The second half of the chapter describes libraries' and librarians' health information response to continuously evolving contexts, mediums, and requirements. One subsection describes librarians' outreach effort with cutting-edge technologies, such as virtual worlds and gaming. Another focuses on supporting patients' information needs in clinical settings. Two more describe how libraries meet patrons' health information needs in the context of disaster preparedness and health insurance market place sign-up.While presenting the information, to the extent possible, the chapter draws upon research and evaluation of the effectiveness of different types of programs. It also discusses enablers of successes, limitations of the existing data, and directions for future research.

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“…Beyond educational opportunities, NNLM provides professional development funds for staff to attend conferences that are beyond the budget of their libraries. NNLM also funds a variety of projects organized by public libraries, including projects which create connections to health resources (Smith 2010), support information-seeking about the Affordable Care Act (Collins 2015), support health information needs assessments within communities (Mi, Stefaniak and Afonso 2014), develop training curriculum for public library staff (Morgan et. al.…”

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Developing an Online Consumer Health Course for Public Library Staff

Kiscaden

Newman

Malachowski

et al. 2019

Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet

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The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region (NNLM GMR) received funding to support the evaluation and development of an asynchronous consumer health information course. Requirements of this project included: incorporating recommendations from NNLM instructors, National Library of Medicine staff and public library staff; piloting the revised course with a nationwide cohort; incorporating feedback from the pilot; and delivering a second instance of the revised course. The revised course meets existing requirements for public library certification and for Level 1 certification of the Medical Library Association's Consumer Health Information Specialization. Keywords Public libraries, consumer health, asynchronous BACKGROUND Public libraries are a cornerstone of health information access for their communities. Even before the general public's widespread adoption of the internet, libraries provided health information through print materials (Dalton and Gartenfeld 1981), CD-ROMs (Schell, Kitendaugh and Siegel 1999), and answering health reference questions (Deering and Harris 1996). Today's increased availability of information online, often of dubious quality (Fox, Duggan 2013), creates a need for greater discernment in locating authoritative and reliable health information. In addition, changes to the United States healthcare system increase the need for patients and health care consumers to become more knowledgeable and engaged in their care (Office of Disease Prevention and Health 2010, Kaiser 2005). Barriers to effective patient engagement include both low health literacy and low digital literacy. Through providing access to actionable health information, reaching out to underserved populations, and hosting health-

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Healthy Libraries Develop Healthy Communities: Public Libraries and Their Tremendous Efforts to Support the Affordable Care Act

Cited by 9 publications

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Public Libraries: A Community-Level Resource to Advance Population Health

Public Libraries: A Community-Level Resource to Advance Population Health

Libraries and librarians: Key partners for progress in health literacy research and practice

Developing an Online Consumer Health Course for Public Library Staff

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