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Browse Library Trends 53 (3) Winter 2005: Consumer Health Issues, Trends, and Research, Part 2: Applicable Research in the 21st Century by Title
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(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2005)In 2000 the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health, funded fifty-three consumer health outreach projects through the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM). The ...
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(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2005)Consumer health librarians can and must function as health advocates within their communities, fostering and strengthening local health initiatives by joining community partnerships and providing health resources. Through ...
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(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2005)The increased demand for consumer health information over the past twenty years has inspired many to usurp the job of the librarian. Health professionals are writing articles about the provision of health information for ...
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(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2005)This article addresses issues surrounding the provision of consumer health information in public libraries. Barriers to the use of public libraries by health care consumers are explored. Once a person has decided to try ...
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(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2005)Iowa City Public Library recently completed an eighteen-month consumer health project entitled Expanding Access to Consumer Health Electronic Resources in Iowa City and Rural Johnson County, Iowa. This project included ...
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(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2005)
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(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2005)Between 2000 and 2005 several changes have created an impact on libraries that provide consumer health information to the public. They include increased Internet connectivity; quality and amount of consumer health ...
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(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2005)
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(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2005)Concern about health literacy is one factor driving an international movement to develop and disseminate health information that is easy to understand and appropriate for people who have difficulty reading or whose first ...
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(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2005)
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(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2005)The Internet has propelled the consumer health movement to the forefront of libraries. Academic health sciences, clinical, hospital, consumer health, and public librarians across the country are seeing a continuous growth ...
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(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2005)The College of Physicians of Philadelphia has created Philly Health Info (PHI), a regional community health information model. PHI objectives are, first, to provide as many citizens of greater Philadelphia as possible ...
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(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2005)Since all people make health decisions, all people need health information. Currently most people do not get health information from libraries; nevertheless, librarians can play an important role in the provision of health ...
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