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Health Information Week 1st - 7th July 2019


Health Information Week is an annual campaign to improve access to health information. Staff from local authorities, public libraries, NHS, voluntary sector, independent information and advice centres have all been working together to make their health resources more available to the public. In most areas your local libraries and information centres will have extra health information available, leaflets for you to take away or sessions to show you how to use the computer to find good quality health information.
For more information about Health Information week, please visit the Knowledge for Healthcare Website: http://kfh.libraryservices.nhs.uk/patient-and-public-information/health-information-week/

RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES  
For anyone interested in improving access to health information and the communication of information, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.
BOOKS
JOURNALS
  • Health information management journal, (alt. title The HIM Journal) Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications [Available as a Keele ejournal 2005 onwards & NHS ejournal 2005 – 2016].
  • Perspectives in Health Information Management, American Health Information Management Association.  [Available as a NHS ejournal 2004 onwards].
  • Journal of public health, Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press [Available in print 2004 – 2008. Also Available as a Keele ejournal 2004 onwards, & NHS e-journal 1979 onwards with 1 year embargo].
  • Health information and libraries journal, Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1984 onwards & NHS ejournal 2001 onwards with 1 year embargo].
  • Patient Education & Counseling, Ireland : Elsevier Ireland Ltd. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards, & NHS e-journal 2007 onwards.]
  • Patient education management, Atlanta, GA : American Health Consultants [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 – 2011 onwards, & NHS e-journal 2008 - 2011.]
  • Journal of medical Internet research, Toronto : JMIR Publications. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1999 onwards, & NHS e-journal 2005 onwards.]
Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • Dean, Caress A. ; Geneus, Christian J. ; Rice, Shahida ; Johns, Marquisha ; Quasie-Woode, Delores ; Broom, Kevin ; Elder, Keith, “Assessing the significance of health information seeking in chronic condition management”, Patient Education and Counseling, August 2017, Vol.100(8), pp.1519-1526. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Wolff, Jennifer ; Darer, Jonathan ; Larsen, Kevin, “Family Caregivers and Consumer Health Information Technology”, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2016, Vol.31(1), pp.117-121. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Richards, Nicola C ; Gouda, Hebe N ; Durham, Jo ; Rampatige, Rasika ; Rodney, Anna ; Whittaker, Maxine, “Disability, noncommunicable disease and health information”, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 1 March 2016, Vol.94(3), pp.230-232. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Kher, A.; Johnson, S.; Griffith, R., “Readability Assessment of Online Patient Education Material on Congestive Heart Failure.”, Advances of Preventative Medicine, 2017, 6/1/2017, epub. Article ID 9780317 [Available via Keele ejournals]
  • Graffigna G, Barello S, Bonanomi A, Riva G., “Factors affecting patients' online health information-seeking behaviours: The role of the Patient Health Engagement (PHE) Model.” Patient Education and Counseling. 2017, Vol.100(10), pp. 1918-1927. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Nguyen A.D.; Frensham, L.J.; Baysari,  M.T. et al., “Patients' use of mobile health applications: what general practitioners think”, Family Practice, 2019, Vol. 36(2), pp.214–218. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Tan, S.S. and Goonawardene, N.; “Internet Health Information Seeking and the Patient-Physician Relationship: A Systematic Review.” Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2017 Vol.19(1):e9. Article: doi: 10.2196/jmir.5729. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Rowlands, G.; Protheroe, J.; Winkley, J. et al., “A mismatch between population health literacy and the complexity of health information: an observational study.”, British Journal of General Practice, 2015, Vol.65(635):e379-86. doi: 10.3399/bjgp15X685285. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Robbins, D.; Dunn, P.; “Digital health literacy in a person-centric world”, International Journal of Cardiology,  2019. Volume 290 (September), pp. 154-155. Epub ahead of print. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

OTHER RESOURCES

On the UHNM  intranet - patient information leaflets
UHNM have a range of patient information leaflets go to the ‘online’ section of the intranet and select the ‘Patient Information Library’.
NICE guidance for Patients and Public - https://www.nice.org.uk/
  • This website can be searched for information about NICE guidelines: click on Evidence Services and then the Evidence Search function.
  • When you have the results of your search, you can then select either of the filters ‘Information for patients’ or ‘Patient decision aids’. Both filters are listed under Evidence Type filters.
  • Results of a search for information about patient Information leaflets see: https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/Search?q=patient+information+leaflets
Patient Info - https://patient.info/

  • Here you can access information and videos to see and hear people's real life experiences of what it is really like to have a health condition. A wide range of conditions are included.
Public Libraries – ask the library staff for assistance with finding health information online.


Health Library subject links pages http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/subjectlinks/
  • The library’s subject links pages cover a wide range of topics and areas of medicine, nursing and midwifery.
  • The pages may include links to specific patient support organisations or other organisations that may offer assistance. Look for the ‘Patient Support’ tab within the subject links page.
  • The ‘Patient Information’ subject links page is dedicated health information services or resources for patients, & resources which can be used by practitioners to aid patients with decision making.



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