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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798173103321

Titolo

Consumer health information services and programs : best practices / / edited by M. Sandra Wood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4422-6274-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Collana

Best Practices in Library Services

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Medicine - Information services

Health - Information services

Public health libraries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. A Most ResourceFULL Consumer Health Information Center; Chapter 2. The University of Tennessee Medical Center's Preston Medical Library and Health Information Center Story; Chapter 3. Health InfoNet of Alabama; Chapter 4. Consumer Health Information Service in the Public Library; Chapter 5. Rewards and Challenges of Children's Health Education: An Ongoing Community Partnership to Reach Local Preschoolers; Chapter 6. Collaborative Outreach between a Hospital Library and a Public Library

Chapter 7. Consumer Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs Library NetworkChapter 8. The Learning Center: A Cancer Consumer Health Library at MD Anderson Cancer Center; Chapter 9. The Big Health Library Umbrella: Our Mandate to Provide Information for All Literacy Abilities; Index; About the Editor and the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Consumer Health Information Programs and Services: Best Practices presents examples of successful and long-standing library programs and services that provide health information to consumers-the general public, patients, and families or patients - who seek information about health and diseases. This best practices volume brings together library programs and services currently offered in hospital libraries, public



libraries, academic health sciences libraries, and standalone consumer health libraries, covering a range of topics and special programs.