Meeting Health Information Needs Outside Of Healthcare (eBook)

Opportunities and Challenges

Alla Keselman, Catherine Arnott Smith (Autoren)

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2015 | 1. Auflage
376 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-100259-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Meeting Health Information Needs Outside of Healthcare addresses the challenges and ethical dilemmas concerning the delivery of health information to the general public in a variety of non-clinical settings, both in-person and via information technology, in settings from public and academic libraries to online communities and traditional and social media channels. Professionals working in a range of fields, including librarianship, computer science and health information technology, journalism, and health communication can be involved in providing consumer health information, or health information targeting laypeople. This volume clearly examines the properties of health information that make it particularly challenging information to provide in diverse settings. - Addresses professional challenges and ethical problems of communicating health information to lay people in non-clinical settings - Focuses on health information as a challenge for different professionals providing health information in different settings - Emphasizes the shared challenges of information practice across different settings as well as those facing professionals in different roles

Dr. Catherine Arnott Smith is an Associate Professor in the School of Library & Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a PhD in Library & Information Sciences/Medical Informatics and an MSIS in Information Sciences/Medical Informatics (University of Pittsburgh, 2002 and 2000 respectively), as well as master's degrees in library and information science and American History/archives administration (University of Michigan, both degrees conferred in 1992). Her research interests are consumer health vocabularies and consumer interactions with electronic medical records and personal health records, as well as clinical information exchange in nonclinical spaces, such as public libraries and university disability resources centers.

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About the authors

Korey Capozza

Korey Capozza is Director of Consumer and Community Engagement at HealthInsight, a nonprofit organization based in Salt Lake City that works to improve the quality of health care in Utah. She has 15 years of experience in health program development and policy analysis. Her research focus is on testing and improving health-care innovations for patients in the community setting. Ms Capozza was principal investigator for the Utah Diabetes Mobile Health Pilot, a study to test the clinical and quality-of-life impact of a two-way text-messaging program for diabetes self-management (Care4Life) and leads the Crowdsource project, an effort to aggregate, analyze, and understand patient comments from peer-to-peer online communities. She is an appointed member of the federal Health Information Technology, Consumer Empowerment Workgroup and a standing reviewer for the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Previously, she served as a consumer advocate in the Utah legislature and was appointed by the Governor of Utah to the Utah Health Exchange advisory board in 2010. A former Pew Scholar and Knight Fellow, Ms Capozza holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s in health policy and management from University of California, Berkeley.

Anne Chernaik

Anne Chernaik has a master’s of science in library and information science from Syracuse University and is an associate professor and reference librarian at the College of Lake County (CLC) in Grayslake, IL, USA, a community college. Since 2006 she has been the health and life sciences librarian and works closely with faculty and students to expand the library’s role in nursing and allied health programs across all three campuses. She is also department chair for the Library Technical Assistant (LTA) program, a course of study offering academic certificate and Associates of Arts Degree options for library support staff. Over the past few years she also completed the master of online teaching professional certificate available through the Illinois Online Network and used that knowledge in instructional design and online education to launch all but one of the core LTA courses in the online environment.

Prudence W. Dalrymple

Prudence Dalrymple is a research and teaching professor at Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics where she directs its Institute for Health Informatics, an interdisciplinary initiative preparing professionals to meet the public’s information and data-related needs. In addition to her early work in cognitive models of information retrieval, she has more than 25 years’ experience in the field of health information and communications. She uses mixed methods to examine how both consumers and health professionals seek and use information to make decisions. She holds a master’s degree in library and information science from Simmons College and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While a National Library of Medicine (NLM) Fellow, she received a master’s degree in health informatics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a certificate in health communication from its Bloomberg School of Public health. She is a Fellow of the Medical Library Association.

Mary Grace Flaherty

Mary Grace Flaherty is currently an assistant professor at the School of Information & Library Science at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. She received her PhD from Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies where she was an IMLS fellow. She received her MLS from the University of Maryland, and her MS in applied behavioral science from Johns Hopkins University and is a current member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals. Dr Flaherty has over 20 years of experience working in a variety of library settings, including academic, medical research, special, and public libraries. Dr Flaherty’s research interests include health information, health literacy, health promotion, and public libraries.

Alla Keselman

Alla Keselman holds a doctorate in human cognition and learning and a master’s in biomedical informatics from Columbia University. She is a senior social science analyst in the Division of Specialized Information Services at the US NLM, National Institutes of Health. Dr Keselman conducts research into lay conceptual understanding of health, as well as the relationship between formal science education and health reasoning in everyday contexts. Her publications have appeared in many science education and informatics journals. She has contributed to several foundational Science|Environment|Health publications, including Science|Environment|Health: Towards a Renewed Pedagogy for Science Education and Science|Environment|Health special issue of the International Journal of Science Education. At NLM, Alla Keselman leads a team that develops science education Web sites, lesson plans, games, and activities. Together with coauthor Albert Zeyer, she is a co-coordinator of the Special Interest Group Science|Environment|Health at ESERA (European Science Education Research Association).

Gary L. Kreps

Gary L. Kreps is a University Distinguished Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. His research examines health communication, health promotion, health informatics, multicultural relations, social organization, and applied research methods, with a major focus on reducing health disparities. He publishes widely (more than 400 articles, books, and monographs) concerning the applications of communication knowledge to address important health issues. Before joining the faculty at George Mason University in 2004, he served as the founding Chief of the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute, NIH.

Clare Tobin Lence

Clare Tobin Lence is a project coordinator at HealthInsight Utah. Her projects primarily leverage technology-based tools to help health-care consumers make informed choices. Ms Lence has served as the strategic lead for the public reporting Web site UtahHealthScape.org since 2012, which has received attention from multiple national agencies, including the Institute of Medicine, for its consumer-friendly design; she also manages HealthInsight’s current work to add health-care pricing information to UtahHealthScape, based on data from Utah’s All Payer Claims Database. Her expertise in consumer engagement lies in understanding of health literacy issues and how to communicate complex information, and particularly data, to nonexpert audiences. She has further utilized this expertise in developing another consumer-oriented Web site, Leaving-Well.org, that supports end-of-life decision making. Ms Lence holds an undergraduate degree in human biology from Stanford University and master of public health and master of public policy degrees from the University of Utah. She is the 2014 winner of Policy Solutions Challenge USA, a national public policy analysis competition.

Daniel M. Levin

Daniel M. Levin is clinical assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches science pedagogy, teacher inquiry, and biology education courses, supervises student teaching interns, and coordinates middle school math and science teacher education programs. His research focuses on responsive science teaching, students’ participation in scientific practices, and teaching and learning of socioscientific issues. He is the author or coauthor of peer-reviewed articles in Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Science Education, Science Educator, Journal of Teacher Education, International Journal of Science Education, American Biology Teacher, and The Science Teacher. He has also coauthored a book, Becoming a Responsive Science Teacher: Focusing on Student Thinking in Secondary Science, published by National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Press (2012).

Robert A. Logan

Robert A. Logan, PhD, is a member of the senior staff of the U.S. NLM and is a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. Dr Logan has published more than 45 articles in refereed journals and is the first author of two books and 11 book chapters. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Science Communication, and Mass Communication and Society. His research areas include health literacy, consumer health informatics evaluation, public understanding of science and medicine, theory and applications of Q methodology, and journalism ethics. Logan corepresents the NLM at the Institute of Medicine’s Health Literacy Roundtable. He writes and narrates NLM’s weekly “Director’s Comments” podcast.

Michelynn McKnight

Michelynn McKnight is associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science, College of Human Sciences & Education, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she teaches graduate courses in health sciences information services and science and technology information sources. For more than 20 years she was the Director of the Health Sciences Library and Consumer Health Information Service for Norman Regional Health System in Norman, Oklahoma. A former member of the Medical Library Association Board of Directors...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.8.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• ISBN-10: 0-08-100259-9 / 0081002599
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-100259-9 / 9780081002599