Past Funded Projects

The exhibit will have trifolds on NLM mobile, Pubmed Health, Pubmed, Medline Plus, Toxtown, and other pertinent materials. A portion of the handouts will focus on the NLM materials that support education of youth and 87.

To support community health nurses across the State of Nevada by providing instruction and promotion of freely available health information, with a focus on National Library of Medicine NLM resources. This award would allow us to re-visit the nursing clinics across the state. Funding will be used for visits to gather input from the nurses and to strengthen our online portal that was developed during the first year of funding from NNLM PSR. This project will promote access to quality information and provide greater support for 95 care providers in Nevada.

Lets Talk Health: Visual Images for Healthy Living is designed to serve vulnerable populations for low health literacy defined as populations to include older 88, immigrant populations, minority populations, and low income populations National Network of Libraries of Medicine, n.d.. Healthcare staff bear the responsibility for improving health literacy among those they serve. TCPH is partnering with three organizations that serve the target population and to increase their health literacy.

15-40 Connection is teaching audiences in high schools, universities, hospitals and corporations how to use personal health awareness to detect cancer earlier and improve cancer survival rates for everyone. Our partnership with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine has allowed for the incorporation of NNLM/MedLine Plus resources into our 3 Steps Detect education, providing reliable and up-to-date information to further empower patients with guidance regarding doctor/patient relationships, symptoms, confidentiality and patient's rights.

The Savitt Medical Library will be a host site for the National Library of Medicine's NLM Native Voices Traveling Exhibit. The Library will use funding to work with Native American communities in Northern Nevada to plan events surrounding the exhibit, including an opening reception and a speaker event. The speaker event will be on 'Food Sovereignty and Native American Nutrition.' These events and the exhibit will be promoted to local Native American communities, the University community, and to Northern Nevada clinicians.

As a resource library for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM, the Gibson D. Lewis Health Science Library is proposing the establishment of a directory of local health organization's programs and events called the H.O.P.E. Directory. The establishment of this directory will help centralize access to reliable and authoritative local information, raise awareness of the role of resource libraries, and generate collaboration between organizations.

Attend and participate in the ALA Midwinter Session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

To enable Southern Chapter/MLA to support and host multiple CE courses and keynote speakers during the annual meeting in Orlando, FL, Oct. 25-28, 2018. The funding will help defray the expense of bringing in CE instructors and thus allow SC/MLA to lower the CE registration costs for attendees. These courses will also have MLA approved CE points offered for members to count toward AHIP certification. The Chapter has invited Derrick Jefferson of American University in Washington, D.C. to come speak on the last day of the conference - Sunday, October 28th, 2018.

Despite improvements in medical care and efforts to make healthcare more affordable for all Americans, many still experience significant heath disparities that result in poor health outcomes. Racial and ethnic minorities, those in 95 and/or 98 areas, and those living in medically underserved areas have a high risk for experiencing health related disparities. Access to authoritative health information is vital to ensuring that individuals make appropriate health decisions and reduce their risk of experiencing poor health outcomes.

Exhibit at the Tennessee Public Health Association TPHA; Annual Conference; September 11-14, 2018

We will focus on several different topics of 92's health, including heart disease, reproductive safety and health, depression and mental health, eating healthy, working out, cancer, yearly screenings, autoimmune disease, caring for a loved one, and self-defense. We will hold 9 sessions, each one hour long, once per month from August through April. We want the 92 in our communities to understand and value their own health and wellness.

This project will establish health sciences library services across a 4-hospital affiliation in 95, underserved Coos County in northern New Hampshire. Among the four North Country Healthcare hospitals the affiliation, Littleton Regional is the lone hospital with a full service health sciences library. The primary goal of this project is to maintain and enhance the quality of health care in Northern New Hampshire by providing health professionals at the North Country Healthcare hospitals timely access to reliable health information resources.

The Public Health Museum is a non-profit educational and cultural museum located in a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places on the grounds of Tewksbury Hospital founded in 1854. The mission of the Public Health Museum is two-fold: to educate the public about the achievements and contributions of public health in preventing disease and improving the health of individuals and communities in Massachusetts and worldwide; and to inspire students, 133s, health care workers and 131s to build upon the past and continue to advance the future of public health.

Funding will directly support honorariums and/or travel expenses of instructors who will teach MLA CE classes for the 2018 MAC Annual Meeting in Ocean City, MD.