Finding Reliable Online Health Resources

Finding Reliable Online Health Resources
Holyoke Community College
March 21, 2013
Margot Malachowski, Baystate Health Outreach Librarian
Lisa Sheehy, MA Dept of Public Health
Sponsored by: Holyoke Pediatrics Associates, LLP

The Health Sciences Library at Baystate Medical
Center is a Resource Library for the National
Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM). Our
mission is to serve the health information needs of
unaffiliated health care practitioners, librarians,
educators and consumers in Western New England.
We provide free instruction and assistance.

What is available to you?
 Learn how to find reliable health
information.
 Ask for research to learn more about a
personal health question.
 Results will be emailed or mailed for FREE.

Consumer Health Library
 3300 Main Street satellite
 M-F afternoons, staffed by librarian
 Free pamphlets on general health
 Subscription databases
 Reference texts, health newsletters
 Free printouts on health information
 Phone, email, postal mail services

Teach classes in our computer lab

Follow the money
advertising
tax dollars
subscription

What will we look at?
 MedlinePlus Health Topics:
 Earaches
 Concussion
 Diets
 Drugs & Supplements (you choose)
 Dictionary
 What does it mean?
 How do you say it?

What will we look at?
 KidsHealth
 BAM!
 MedlinePlus app
 iTriage app

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