HIV/AIDS Health Information Outreach Service in San Diego

Broering, Naomi C.; Chauncey, Gregory A.; Miller, Jack B.

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“…2,3 Third, libraries play a critical role in promoting child and adult literacy-keys to predicting health literacy, adherence to preventive health care services, and overall health outcomes. 4,5 Finally, libraries have long been sources of consumer health information, [6][7][8][9][10][11] places of shelter, and sites of socializa-tion across diverse groups. 12 They have even served as venues for preventive health efforts.…”

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Beyond Books: Public Libraries As Partners For Population Health

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Public libraries are not usually included in discussions about improving population health. They are, however, well positioned to be partners in building a culture of health through programming that addresses the social determinants of health. The Healthy Library Initiative, a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania and the Free Library of Philadelphia (the public library system that serves the city), has undertaken such efforts in Philadelphia. In this article we report findings from an assessment of how ten highly subscribed programs address the social determinants of health, as well as results of interviews with community residents and library staff. Of the 5.8 million in-person Free Library visits in 2015, 500,000 included attendance at specialized programs that addressed multiple health determinants, such as housing and literacy. Library staff provided intensive support to vulnerable populations including homeless people, people with mental illness and substance use, recent immigrants, and children and families suffering from trauma. We found that public libraries are trusted institutions that have broad population reach and untapped potential to improve population health.

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“…For example, libraries in San Diego, California, partnered with a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community organization, a local church, and the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine to disseminate HIV/AIDS-related information and provide free computer training to 2,500 people including patients, community residents, and health professionals. 38 Some libraries directly employ medical professionals to provide health services. For example, in 2011, the Pima County Public Library in Arizona partnered with the local public health department to employ a public health nurse who provided basic health services such as physical assessments, first aid, and influenza vaccines.…”

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Public Libraries: A Community-Level Resource to Advance Population Health

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Policy makers and public health practitioners rarely consider public libraries to be part of the health system, even though they possess several characteristics that suggest unrealized potential to advance population health. This scoping review uses an adapted social determinants framework to categorize current health-related work conducted by public libraries in the United States and to discuss libraries' potential as 'meso-level' community resources to improve population health. Our discussion of libraries contributes to scholarship on place-based health disparities, by emphasizing the potential impact of institutions that are modifiable through social policy-e.g., parks, community centers, schools-and which have a conceptually clear or empirically documented relationship to health.

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“…The negative correlation between the public library use variables and health is expected: an increase in public library use is related to a decrease in child mortality rates. Public libraries offer literature on health issues in print (Linnan et al, 2004) and online (Becker et al, 2010), and programmes on health issues are offered to supplement the literature (Broering et al, 2012). The correlations in Table I do not show a very strong relationship.…”

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Correlations between the economy and public library use

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2015),"Greek public libraries in economic crisis: the past, the present and the future", The Bottom Line, Vol. 28 Iss 1/2 pp. 77-79 http://dx.If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between different aspects of public library use with elements of economic growth and development. Design/methodology/approach -Statistical correlations were performed to uncover statistically significant relationships. Findings -Relationships are not uniform: strongly positive relationships exist between education and visits, circulation and library programmes, savings and visits and circulation and programmes, and a strongly negative relationship exists between health and circulation. Research limitations/implications -Only one proxy variable for each of the economic development indicators was used, including the fact that others might have revealed other information. Social implications -The revealed relationships should be kept in mind by librarians and policymakers as decisions to change library services that might trickle down to citizens through economic growth and development. Originality/value -This paper brings together a variety of economic growth and development factors and several aspects of public library use in a single framework.

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HIV/AIDS Health Information Outreach Service in San Diego

Cited by 4 publications

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Beyond Books: Public Libraries As Partners For Population Health

Beyond Books: Public Libraries As Partners For Population Health

Public Libraries: A Community-Level Resource to Advance Population Health

Correlations between the economy and public library use

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