# Presentation: 248954

## Public Health Partners

***Marty Magee******	***
***National Network/Libraries of Medicine***
***MidContinental Region ***
***800-338-7657***

## Objectives

- Gain a deeper understanding of 	the public health workforce 	and their training needs
- Review PHPartners
- Organize and deliver public health resources so they are easier to find and use.
- Increase the visibility of the partnership with librarians and the public health workforce.
- Increase the information literacy of the public health workforce.

## Why?

*Most LHD professionals do not have formal public health training.  Most LHDs are unable  to provide support or incentives for current staff to obtain the formal public health training that would increase the quality of the workforce.  Most LHDs cannot provide pay increases or other incentives to staff who obtain additional public health training or degrees*.   			 Institute of Medicine 2003

## http://www.medlineplus.gov/

- _[http://](http://www.medlineplus.gov/)__[www.medlineplus.gov](http://www.medlineplus.gov/)__[/](http://www.medlineplus.gov/)_

## www.healthfinder.gov

## Search Public Health

## Search Public Health Professionals

## Search Community Leaders

## Office of Public Health and Science

- _[http://](http://www.osophs.dhhs.gov/ophs/)__[www.osophs.dhhs.gov/ophs](http://www.osophs.dhhs.gov/ophs/)__[/](http://www.osophs.dhhs.gov/ophs/)_

## Best Practice Iniative

- _[http://](http://www.osophs.dhhs.gov/ophs/BestPractice/)__[www.osophs.dhhs.gov/ophs/BestPractice](http://www.osophs.dhhs.gov/ophs/BestPractice/)__[/](http://www.osophs.dhhs.gov/ophs/BestPractice/)_

## www.nutrition.gov

## Combine Health Information Database http://chid.nih.gov/

## Search for Weight Control-Publications

## Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality http://www.ahrq.gov/

- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality http://www.ahrq.gov/

## DIRLINE

**DIRLINE**

## Toxtown http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/town/main.html

## Household Products Database http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/

## www.phPartners.org

## Health Promotion and Health Educationhttp://phpartners.org/hpro.html

## Literature and Guidelineshttp://phpartners.org/guide.html

## Health Data Tools and Statisticshttp://phpartners.org/health_stats.html

**Two categories of data sets are commonly used**
*Individual service or encounter-based data*
*Describes populations, rather than individual encounters*

## http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html

## Grants and Fundinghttp://phpartners.org/grants.html

## Education and Traininghttp://phpartners.org/educ.html

## Legislationhttp://phpartners.org/legis.html

## Conference and Meetingshttp://phpartners.org/conf_mtgs.html

## Finding Peoplehttp://phpartners.org/find_people.html

## Discussion and E-Mail Listshttp://phpartners.org/dlists.html

## Jobs and Careershttp://phpartners.org/jobs.html

## Roles for Library Staff

- Train Public Health staff on health information access
- Comprehensive cross-database and Internet searching
- Provide fast, low-cost document delivery
- Set up current awareness services for individuals
- Activate online access to journals
- Via PubMed
- Collect, catalog and archive Health Department publications

## Questions?

- Marty Magee
- mmagee@unmc.edu