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Finding Information For Others: Health Education Resources

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

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Finding Information For Others: Health Education Resources

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  1. Finding Information For Others: Health Education Resources Molly Youngkin, MLS mollyy@lib.med.utah.edu November 6, 2004

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

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

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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Sources Continued: Scorecard National Center for Cultural Competence Contentbank

  10. http://medlineplus.gov

  11. http://healthfinder.gov

  12. http://phpartners.org

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

  14. http://smart-mouth.org

  15. Temas de Salud http://www.noah-health.org

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

  17. http://nnlm.gov/train

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

  19. http://chid.nih.gov

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