The Medical Library Association guide to providing consumer and patient health information
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33379
edited by Michele Spatz.
--Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield
, c2014.
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- Location
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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-evolvin…
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- Corporate Author
- Medical Library Association, sponsoring body
- Other Authors
- Spatz, Michele
- Responsibility
- edited by Michele Spatz
- Alternate Title
- Guide to providing consumer and patient health information
- Place of Publication
- Lanham, MD
- Publisher
- Rowman and Littlefield
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 219 p.)
- Series Title
- Medical Library Association books
- ISBN
- 9781442225718
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Consumer Health Information
- Library Services
- Patient Education as Topic
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Medical informatics
- Patient education
- Libraries and hospital patients
- Abstract
- 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.
- Contents
- History of consumer and patient health librarianship / Michele Spatz -- Where to start? : needs assessment / Nikki Dettmar -- Strategic planning for success / Mary Grace Flaherty -- Bricks and mortar : costs, budgeting & funding sources / Cara Marcus -- Patient friendly technology : today and tomorrow / Gabe Rios & Emma O'Hagan -- Prized assets : staff / Jean Shipman & Erica Lake -- Health reference service / Nancy Dickenson, Carmen Huddleston, Gillian Kumagai, Jean Johnson, Edgar Lopez -- Ethical issues in providing consumer and patient health information / Barbara Bibel with Michele Spatz -- Social media for health consumers and patients / Michelle Kraft -- Meeting health information needs of diverse populations : children, teens, LGBT, low literate, ESL / Linda Stahl -- Cultural sensitivity and health information resources & services / Donna J. McCloskey -- Marketing health library services to patients and consumers / Jackie Davis -- Strategic partnerships : in-reach / Carol Ann Atwood.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
