Finding Information For Others: Health Education Resources

Molly Youngkin, MLS

mollyy@lib.med.utah.edu

November 6, 2004

What will I learn here?Health Educators will be able to:

Recognize commonly used health Web sites

Find health information in different languages

Evaluate Web sites for quality Find Web sites addressing literacy and

cultural competency issues

Competencies

• To inform, educate, and empower people about health issues

• Ten Essential Services, Number 3

• Public Health Functions Steering Committee

http://www.health.gov/phfunctions/public.htm

core competencies (communication)

• Effectively presents accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences

• Leads and participates in groups to address specific issues

Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice

http://trainingfinder.org/competencies

A health educator has been invited to speak at a local high school. Her audience will be students as well as parents. A large portion of her community speaks Spanish, although several members of the community are Cambodian. She would like to address issues related to health disparities within the community. She has decided to focus primarily on providing information about

diabetes and guiding the parents and students to relevant resources available on the Internet. Where can the health educator find good health information?

Internet Navigator http://medstat.med.utah.edu/navigator

Selected Sources

MedlinePlus

Healthfinder

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce (PHPartners.org)

Nutrition.Gov

Smart-Mouth.Org

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health

24 Languages Project

Sources continued:

Multilingual Health Information, National Training Center and Clearinghouse

CHID Online: The Combined Health Information Database

Community Tool Box (CTB)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Tox Town

Sources Continued:

Scorecard

National Center for Cultural Competence

Contentbank

http://medlineplus.gov

http://healthfinder.gov

http://phpartners.org

http://www.apha.org/NPHW/solutions

http://smart-mouth.org

http://www.noah-health.org

Temas de Salud

http://medstat.med.utah.edu/24languages/refdesk/24lang.html

http://nnlm.gov/train

http://nnlm.gov/train/chi/multi.html

http://chid.nih.gov

http://ctb.ukans.edu

Assess Community Needs and Resources

Toolkits

http://www.cdc.gov

http://health.nih.gov

http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov

http://scorecard.org

Superfund

Zip Code

Chemical Profiles

http://gucchd.georgetown.edu/nccc

http://contentbank.org

Molly Youngkin, MLSmollyy@lib.med.utah.edu

(801) 587-3487

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Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT