Meeting health information needs outside of healthcare :
[Book]
opportunities and challenges /
edited by Catherine Arnott Smith and Alla Keselman
xx, 356 pages ;
23 cm
Chandos information professional series
Includes bibliographical references and index
Overview: Designing health information programs to promote the health and well-being of vulnerable populations: the benefits of evidence-based strategic health communication -- Health literacy research's growth, challenges, and frontiers -- Libraries: Medical information for the consumer before the World Wide Web -- Ethical health information: Do it well; Do it right; Do no harm -- Health information provision in the public library setting -- Who need a health librarian? Ethical reference transactions in the consumer health library -- Consumer health information: the community college conundrum -- Contexts: Health information delivery outside the clinic in a developing nation: the Qatar Cancer Society in the State of Qatar -- Health information and older adults -- Re-envisioning the health information-seekign conversation: insights from a community center -- For the mutual benefit: health information provision in the science classroom -- "You will be glad you hung onto this quit": sharing information and giving support when stopping smoking online -- Health information in bits and bytes: considerations and challenges of digital health communication -- Does specialization matter? How journalistic expertise explains differences in health-care coverage
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Health literacy
Information storage and retrieval systems-- Medicine