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Greater Midwest Region Featured Projects 2007
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Multi-lingual Health Information Access for Immigrants and Refugees
Institutions: Heartland Health Outreach, Chicago, Illinois, and Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Library, Maywood, IL
Project Director: Celine Woznica
The purpose of the Multi-lingual Health Information Access for Immigrants and Refugees project, funded by a GMR Health Disparities Subcontract, is to enhance access to health information on the Internet for immigrant and refugee populations in the greater Chicago area. Through collaboration with the Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Library and representative community-based mutual aid associations, Heartland Health Outreach (HHO) plans to provide the technical support and equipment necessary for health promoters working in eight distinct immigrant communities to research and download culturally and linguistically appropriate health information. This health information, in audio, print, and multi-media format, will be stored on dedicated computers purchased for each agency for its ethnic community's use. In addition, health information will be downloaded onto portable formats for individual distribution and/or viewing in community settings. For more information on this Health Disparities project or on other small subcontracts offered by the GMR each year, visit: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/recipients.html
Horizons in Healthcare: Innovation and Success
University of North Dakota, Library of the Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND
Project Director: Barbara Knight, MA, MLS, AHIPThe Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences exhibited at the 2007 Dakota Conference for Rural and Public Health in Mandan, North Dakota, on March 20th and 21st. This conference attracts rural healthcare providers as well as providers in public health offices serving all 53 counties of North Dakota and the Aberdeen Area of the Indian Health Service, as well as hospital administrators and healthcare professionals from the North Dakota Public Health Department. There were 213 attendees who visited our NLM exhibit. The popular handouts at this year’s conference included a LactMed information sheet for professionals, the LactMed Basics tri-fold, a National Institutes of Health PDA Resources information sheet, the MedlinePlus® tri-fold and the PubMed® Basics tri-fold. Visit The Cornflower for our report: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/2007/07/13/horizons-in-healthcare-innovation-and-success/.
For more information on this project funded by a GMR Exhibit Award, or on other GMR exhibitors, visit: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/exhibits/recipients.html.
Libraries MUVE (Multi-User Environment) Consumers into Accessibility Awareness
Institution: Alliance Library System, East Peoria, IL
Project Director: Lori Bell
In April 2006, Alliance Library System began a full-service library in Second Life, a three-dimension virtual reality world. In 2007, they propose to build on the consumer health outreach in Second Life with an examination of, exhibits and programs for, and awareness about accessibility and assistive technology for Second Life residents. The Alliance Library System and its project partners will develop and host an exhibit program and create awareness through the Metaverse Messenger, the Second Life newspaper, about virtual world and game accessibility and assistive technology for the underserved users: those with mobility or dexterity challenges; visual impairments; blindness; the deaf and hearing impaired; and those with learning disabilities. Both the original and this project were funded by a GMR Consumer Health Subcontract, for more information on them, visit: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/consumer/recipients.html
Health-E Illinois
Institution: Loyola University Health Sciences Library, Chicago, IL
Project Director: Logan Ludwig, PhD
September 7, 2007, was the Kick-Off celebration for this Illinois Go Local project funded by a GMR Go Local subcontract. The goal of Health-E Illinois is to build a statewide database of local health resources and services for the benefit of individuals using the NLM MedlinePlus system. Our objectives include: create high-quality, user-friendly database of resources and services in Illinois; increase awareness & use of MedlinePlus and Health-E Illinois through promotion; engage librarians, health professionals & organizations to identify health resources; and increase statewide visibility of role of IL librarians in linking consumers and practitioners to health information. Visit our Go Local website at: http://medlineplus.gov/illinois/ and for more information on the project, visit: http://www.lumc.edu/depts/library/GoLocal/
Empowering Public Health ⁄ Patient Safety Outreach through Community Partnerships - PPECA II
Institution: Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa
Project Director: Linda Walton
The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa plans to build on an existing model to inform and educate consumers and librarians on patient safety awareness, a major public health concern. Further developing the 2004 Partnering for Patient Empowerment Through Community Awareness (PPECA) train-the-trainer program, the library will collaborate with the University of Iowa College of Public Health and its Institute for Quality Healthcare, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC), Consumers Advancing Patient Safety, and Zipperer Project Management (specializing in patient safety information projects), to launch Empowering Public Health ⁄ Patient Safety Outreach through Community Partnerships or PPECA II. The goal is to train public health educators and program planners on the use of a community-focused patient safety consumer awareness program. Five rural Iowa communities have been targeted for the project as well as a kick-off program at the UIHC. Funded by a GMR Public Health Subcontract, this is one of several large subcontracts offered by the GMR each year. For more information on this and other subcontracts, visit: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/
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Last reviewed: 09 September 2008
Last updated: 28 September 2007
First published: 01 October 2007
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