Services for Health Information Consumers

Revision as of 19:08, 15 April 2011

• Assessing the information needs of health care providers in rural areas shares strategies that have worked medical librarians as they serve the Native American population in the Four Corners Region.
• Working with tribal populations to increase access to health information share "lessons learned" from medical librarians working with Native American tribes
• Kansas GoLocal a collaboration of public, academic, and health sciences libraries building an online locator service for health care resources and services in the state of Kansas
• Crossing the Religious Divide a partnership between an academic library and a faith-based organization to train caregivers in religious diversity
• Changing the Face of Medicine shares the practices of a library exhibit and related events to celebrate the contributions of women physicians, to increase community awareness of medicine, and to inspire youth to pursue careers in medicine or health sciences.
• Aurora Lights
• Senior Outreach
• Mobile School Health Information Initiative (MoSHI) Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine, developed MoSHI as a train-the-trainer program to connect K-12 librarians in the St. Louis metropolitan area with credible health information.
• Utahealthnet, statewide consumer health resources