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Partnering to Encourage Health Information Seeking by Patients in an Urban Clinic

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Abstract:
Health literacy and health information literacy have been identified as essential to achieving a
healthy society and an informed and empowered citizenry.1,2,3 Librarians, particularly health
sciences librarians, have long embraced health information literacy whole-heartedly,4 but health
literacy has also been adopted as a concern of clinical medicine and public health. Librarians
frequently contribute their services and expertise to meet the information needs of individual health
professionals, patients and consumers, but their work on health literacy could benefit from greater
exposure and recognition across the health care spectrum. One route to this recognition is through
collaborative work and partnerships in which the value of health information literacy and health
information seeking are more clearly articulated and, ideally, linked to improved health outcomes.
This paper will report on work informed by the theoretical framework put forth by Don Nutbeam, a
public health researcher who views health information seeking as a fundamental component in
achieving health literacy and ultimately, improved health outcomes.5 In this pilot project, a
multidisciplinary team that included librarians worked together to develop and test the feasibility of a
mobile phone application aimed at increasing health information seeking by expectant mothers. It
will also distinguish between “ a partnership” and “a collaboration” and will suggest that effective
work in health literacy may require roles for librarians that differ from those traditionally assumed in
delivering health information services.

Keywords: Information literacy, health literacy, collaboration, partnership

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IFLA WLIC 2013

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Singapore : International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions., 2013

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IFLA WLIC 2013, Submitted on: June 12, 2013

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English

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ILMU PERPUSTAKAAN

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