Providing Consumer Health Information at Your Library
1. Providing Consumer Health Information at Your Library Andrea Kenyon Director of Public Health and Community Outreach Director of PhillyHealthInfo.org The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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3. Since all people make health decisions, all people need health information
4. What is health literacy? The degree to which individual have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions [Healthy People 2010] What is information literacy? A set of abilities enabling individuals to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate and use effectively the needed information [ALA 1998]
51. It is in the provision of consumer health information that we as librarians might have our greatest opportunity to experience the impact of information on every member of the community.
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