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New Online Public Health Information and Data Tutorial for Public Health Professionals
By Monique Uzelac [NLM Press Release]
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce and the University of Michigan Public Health Library & Informatics announces the Public Health Information and Data Tutorial. This online tutorial is a new tool designed to help the public health workforce effectively locate and use health information.
The Public Health Information and Data Tutorial helps public health workers use and manage the wealth of information available from myriad sources. The tutorial is made up of four modules: “Staying Informed,” “Health Education Resources,” “Health Statistics,” and “Evidence Based Public Health.” In these modules, users can learn how to build a plan to stay informed about developments and events related to public health, find reliable and authoritative consumer-oriented materials to support health education goals, retrieve statistical information, access data sets relevant to public health, and use information in support of evidence-based practice.
The Public Health Information and Data Tutorial builds on the success of Public Health Information and Data: A Training Manual, a publication for those developing training for the public health workforce published by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine and the National Library of Medicine, and prepared by the NN/LM Public Health Training Workgroup. The Public Health Information and Data Tutorial captures these critical strategies employed by information specialists in the field to locate and manage public health information in an easily accessibly online format.
The Public Health Information and Data Tutorial is available at phpartners.org/tutorial/.
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