Past Funded Projects

Margaret S. Zimmerman, an Assistant Professor with the University of Iowas UI School of Library and Information Science SLIS requests a grant for a pilot program to develop and implement a health literacy training for refugee women living in Johnson and Linn counties in Iowa. Building upon the PIs current body of research into the health information needs of refugee women and using National Library of Medicine resources, trainings will be developed in collaboration with scholars from the UIs Language, Literacy, and Culture program and from UIs School of Public Health.

We will focus on several different topics of women'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 women in our communities to understand and value their own health and wellness.

This request seeks to fund the purchase and support of 20 iPads loaded with NLM consumer health information for 88 and 86. This proposed project is a partnership between the Charlevoix Public Library and the Munson Charlevoix Hospital Education Department. The iPads will be placed in the Library, the Hospital Wellness Workshop facility, in selected physicians' and school nurse offices and used in health clinics for 109s and community senior events. The Health Librarian will train the health professionals to use the iPads and review specific NLM databases.

Lack of access to treatment for youth living in medically underserved areas with a mental health condition can lead to poor academic performance, substance use, hospitalization, and attempted or completed suicide. The 2008 88tal Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act requires health insurance plans to provide mental health and substance use disorder benefits equal to those of medical/surgical benefits, and the Affordable Care Act requires plans to offer mental health care benefits.

Health literacy is a critical pathway to better health outcomes. Yet for countless low-income families, health resources like those on MedlinePlus are simply out of reach. Some are unaware of its existence while others simply lack the digital skills to find what they're looking for. By meeting people where they are-while waiting at the laundromat-Libraries Without Borders LWB strives to empower low-income families with the information they seek in a manner that conforms to their everyday schedule.

The Comics and Medicine 2018 Conference seeks to engage health providers, health information professionals, artists, academics and members of the local community in the use of comics as a resource to provide accessible health information and communicate health-related experiences. This year's conference theme is "The Ways We Work" and will offer panel discussions and oral presentations on the ways that graphic medicine is being practiced by teachers, librarians, healthcare professionals and artists.

Chronic Illness and Disease Awareness CIDA is the only organization in our community that seeks to educate the Tri-Cities community about chronic illnesses. Research studies show that increasing numbers of community members have been diagnosed with chronic illnesses, exponentially growing the health illiteracy rate in our community. Recognizing this, the purpose of this project is titled Action Behind Educationaction that will require a two-fold project.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Remote Area Medical RAM Volunteer Corps at Wise, VA July 20-22, 2018 We will provide consumer health information request forms and Medline Plus promotional materials to assist the medical providers at RAM. In previous years, we typically have sent information on 400+ consumer health questions.

At 12% proficiency, U.S. health literacy sets the population at disadvantage for consumer health outcomes and overall healthcare costs NCES, 2006; DHHS, 2017. While efforts exist for improvement via rewriting and training in plain language, these strategies are found to be limited pieces of a process that must be placed in a larger community context NNLM, 2018. Witnessed in this context is variance in access to health resources multiplied by effects of social determinants such as aging, low socio-economic and minority status.

Project HEAL will combine health literacy with English language instruction at the Trident Literacy Association TLA in Charleston, SC. TLA has provided comprehensive literacy programs, GED preparation, English as a Second Language ESL, Computer Basics, WorkKeys and Civics and Citizenship programming since 1972. Incorporating health literacy into the existing program provides a unique opportunity for students. TLA uses the South Carolina Adult ESL Handbook and ESL Scope and Sequence South Carolina Adult Education standards.

Drake LRC wants older African Americans and students to make healthy choices and avoid risky healthcare behaviors. However, the potential pitfalls for senior 88 and students are great. Drake LRC proposes to make available through workshops and health fairs the content from the NLM databases to combat alcohol abuse, hypertension, eye care, diabetes, and other health topics that can promote good preventive healthcare.

As one of the largest consumers of healthcare, senior 88 are often left behind as new technologies are introduced to support patient engagement. The goal of The Connect to your Health wellness fair project was to provide an interactive educational experience to connect the 89 living in the Town of Southampton to online health-related resources. A collaborative effort between Stony Brook University, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, and the Town of Southampton Senior Centers helped drive this project forward.

The proposed project aims to provide health kits to families in underserved communities, and to promote awareness and demonstrate the use of National Library of Medicine health information resources. At Sacramento Public Library, nurses or nursing students will accompany staff on bookmobile routes and present materials/provide services at a canopied resource table set up in front of the bookmobile. Nurses will provide instruction using the information in the IHA resource What To Do When Your Child Gets Sick in conjunction with digital thermometers and calibrated medicine spoons.