Holyoke Consumer Health Library, Inc.

Guides

This section includes instructional resources for librarians, health-care professionals, and educators. Topics include: how to
evaluate health web sites, how to find quality health information for consumers, how to use specific health databases, etc.

Created by HCHL:

Criteria and Tips for Evaluating Health Web Sites, a handout prepared by Kathleen Packard 3/29/06

Training materials from other sources:

Consumer Health: An Online Manual (CAPHIS)
Librarian & Health Educator Resources (NN/LM)
National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NN/LM)
Training for NLM's Databases and Databanks.
MedlinePlus Tour (NIH and NLM)
Audio-visual overview of MedlinePlus' main features.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Publications (NIH)
Database of free government publications and reports. Useful for patient-education. Can view, print, or order.
Health & Literacy Special Collection Resources for teaching and learning health literacy skills. Created, compiled, and updated by World Education with support from the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL).

Collection Guides

Collection Development Guides (Health Sciences Library Assoc of NJ)a series of annotated bibliographies (each in PDF format) of recommended consumer health resources for libraries.

Other useful resources:

MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing.
Spanish version available.
Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tuturial
16-minutes. Requires Flash plug-in.
A User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web (MLA NET)
Finding Reliable Health Information Online (National Human Genome Research Institute) includes section on Reviewing Scientific and Medical Literature.
Health Concerns Around Low Income Issues (NN/LM)
HON Code of conduct for medical and health web sites (HON Foundation)
Lists the eight principles of reliable web sites according to this organization. Audio options.
Health Compass: Navigating Research Information on Health and Aging (American Federation for Aging Research)
Includes Educators' Guide and also a User's Tutorial.
Health Literacy wiki (Adult Literacy Education (ALE) Wiki)
Many links to resources in health literacy. See also the tutorial created by NN/LM NER Health Literacy: New Fields, New Opportunities
Consumer Health wiki (Consumer Health Information Service (CHIS) of the Toronto Public Library)

updated: 5/14/2008

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