Comprised of fifteen chapters written by experienced consumer
health librarians, The Medical Library Association Guide to
Providing Consumer and Patient Health Information is designed for
library and information science graduate students as well as
librarians new to health and medical librarianship, regardless of
library setting. It is comprehensive in scope, covering all aspects
of consumer and patient health and medical information from their
humble, grassroots beginnings to the ever-evolving applications of
new technology and social media. In between, the mundane aspects of
health and medical librarianship, such as needs assessment, costs,
budgeting and funding, and staffing are discussed. Adding richness
to this discussion are the coverage of more sensitive topics such
as patient-friendly technology, ethical issues in providing
consumer and patient health information, meeting the needs of
diverse populations, and responding to individuals from various
cultural backgrounds. No comprehensive picture of consumer and
patient health librarianship would be complete without addressing
the critical importance of marketing and strategic partnerships;
such discussions round out this invaluable guide. Patients today
must be knowledgeable enough to participate in their health and
well-being. Shorter hospital stays, changing reimbursement patterns
and the gradual shift towards focusing on proactively maintaining
health and managing disease require patients to be informed and
actively engaged. Education, information and understanding are
important components of actively-engaged patients. Correspondingly,
in today's e-world, there is a glut of information resources
available through the Internet - from YouTube videos to Googling to
blogs and Twitter feeds. What is lacking in these information-rich
times is the relevance of meaning and context for those who ask,
"Does this health and medical information apply to me and my unique
clinical picture?" or "How do I use this information?" As knowledge
navigators, information technology wizards and content experts,
librarians offer focused responses to individuals' specific and
highly personal health and medical information queries. In a new
healthcare world order of optimizing health and minimizing
hospitalizations, such a service is invaluable. Sadly, there still
exists in our highly networked and technological age an information
gap for those who struggle in obtaining meaningful health or
medical information. These individuals may be foreign-born,
non-English speaking, poor, rural, aged or semi-literate. Whatever
their status, librarians must have the wherewith-all to find
germane resources and also help create responsive mechanisms to
bridge that health information gap for vulnerable citizens. The
Medical Library Association Guide to Providing Consumer and Patient
Health Information will guide you on the road to providing that
response.
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