Public Health Partners Marty Magee National Network/Libraries of Medicine MidContinental Region 800-338-7657
Mar 29, 2015
Public Health Partners
Marty MageeNational Network/Libraries of MedicineMidContinental Region 800-338-7657
Objectives•Gain a deeper understanding of the public health workforce and their training needs
•Review PHPartnersOrganize and deliver public health resources so they are easier to find and use. Increase the visibility of the partnership with librarians and the public health workforce. Increase the information literacy of the public health workforce.
Why?
Most LHD professionals do not have formal public health training. Most LHDs are unable to provide support or incentives for current staff to obtain the formal public health training that would increase the quality of the workforce. Most LHDs cannot provide pay increases or other incentives to staff who obtain additional public health training or degrees. Institute of Medicine 2003
http://www.medlineplus.gov/
www.healthfinder.gov
Search Public Health
Search Public Health Professionals
Search Community Leaders
Office of Public Health and Science
http://www.osophs.dhhs.gov/ophs/
Best Practice Iniativehttp://www.osophs.dhhs.gov/ophs/BestPractice/
www.nutrition.gov
Combine Health Information Database
http://chid.nih.gov/
Search for Weight Control-Publications
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ahrq.gov/
http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/DIRLINE
Toxtown http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/town/main.html
Household Products Database
http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/
www.phPartners.org
Health Promotion and Health Education
http://phpartners.org/hpro.html
Literature and Guidelines
http://phpartners.org/guide.html
Health Data Tools and Statistics
http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html
Two categories of data sets are commonly used•Individual service or encounter-based data
•Describes populations, rather than individual encounters
http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html
Grants and Fundinghttp://phpartners.org/grants.html
Education and Traininghttp://phpartners.org/educ.html
Legislationhttp://phpartners.org/legis.html
Conference and Meetings
http://phpartners.org/conf_mtgs.html
Finding Peoplehttp://phpartners.org/find_people.html
Discussion and E-Mail Lists
http://phpartners.org/dlists.html
Jobs and Careershttp://phpartners.org/jobs.html
Roles for Library Staff
•Train Public Health staff on health information access
•Comprehensive cross-database and Internet searching
•Provide fast, low-cost document delivery
•Set up current awareness services for individuals
•Activate online access to journals
•Via PubMed
•Collect, catalog and archive Health Department publications
Questions?
Marty [email protected]