... Health care Evidence-based practice Health education Information literacy Care professionals need the best information to meet their patient care or research needs. A high level of health information literacy is as important (if not more so) for healthcare practitioners and other care...

... with the purpose and use of evaluation in program development. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Academic libraries Information services Health care Medical libraries Service delivery Libraries and others vested in the public’s social and health wellbeing conduct outreach...

...Diana McDuffee Area Health Education Center (AHEC) librarians are first, and foremost, outreach librarians. Improving health care and the distribution of health‐care professionals in rural and under‐served areas is the origin of the AHEC program. AHEC librarians play an important role in clinical...

...Jean P. Shipman; Andrew C. Morton Many health‐care professionals are reaching for their palm‐size computer or personal digital assistant (PDA) as their latest indispensable health‐care instrument. How can libraries, librarians and information science professionals support further adoption...

... Health care Herbal medicines Natural products Herbalogy The world of herbal medicine encompasses aspects of modern Western medical and pharmaceutical practice, ancient and modern belief systems, biology, chemistry, anthropology, and agriculture. Pharmacists, pharmaceutical researchers...

... of consumer health information services in academic libraries have been undertaken as yet. The USA and Canada differ in the funding and certain service delivery means of their respective library and health‐care systems, but the congruence of the main findings in the Canadian and Michigan public library...

... in the future. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Health care Diseases USA Information services Hospitals ...