Health Information for Youth

The Public Library and School Library Media Center Role

W. Bernard Lukenbill, Barbara Froling Immroth

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Year: 2007
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780313096273
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Well-known authors, W. Bernard Lukenbill and Barbara Froling Immroth, provide an introduction to a difficult topic. This book covers the general status of youth healthcare, the issues and concerns providing a model of health delivery, and their relationship to the school and public library. Public and school librarians and their clientele will appreciate this straightforward approach to finding and selecting consumer information on health related topics. School librarians will find resources to help teachers who are being asked to teach consumer health classes. Students, librarians, teachers, parents, and caregivers in need of information that addresses health issues encountered by youth will find it in this inclusive book on the topic. Public and school librarians will appreciate discussions of issues related to the general status of healthcare for youth, delivery systems, and locations of consumer information and methods to select and manage the collection of health information materials.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Health Information for Youth: Policies and Directions
• Chapter 2: Health Issues and Libraries in the Modern World: An Overview
• Chapter 3: Community Models for Health Information Delivery
• Chapter 4: Consumer Health Information for Youth and Their Caregivers
• Chapter 5: Families, Parents, Caregivers, and Health Information
• Chapter 6: Youth and Critical Health Concerns: Information for Parents and Caregivers
• Chapter 7: Youth Health Information Needs: Theories, Products, and Designs
• Chapter 8: Planning Health and Fitness Programs and Services
• Chapter 9: The Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Highlighting Issues and Models for Health Information
• Chapter 10: Global Health, Health Information, and Education
• Chapter 11: Selection and Collection Development for Health Information: A Bibliographic Approach
• Chapter 12: Censorship, the Law, and Access to Health Information
• Chapter 13: Into the Future: Action Research for Health Care Information
• Appendix: Action Research for Health Information
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• Figure 1.1. The Doctor. A painting by Sir Luke Fides. Courtesy of the United States Postal Service
• Figure 1.2. Early drawing illustrating efforts to control diseases through government action. Courtesy of the United States Department of Health and Human Services
• Figure 1.3. The healthy community and the library
• Figure 2.1. Ruins of a Medieval Hospital: The Hospital of St John in Jerusalem,founded by the Knights of St. John to Aid the Sick. Line drawings by Richard H.Hendler based on photographs by James McDonald published in 1865
• Figure 2.2. Campaign by U.S. government to combat the 1918 flu epidemic.Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Figure 2.3. American Public Health Examination Board, ca. 1912.Courtesy of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
• Figure 2.4. The United States National Library of Medicine Building.Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine
• Figure 3.1. Newborn examination, 1967. Published by permission of Nevit Dilmen
• Figure 4.1. Diagram of major function areas of a consumer health information service and consulting center
• Figure 4.2. Consumer health information center: major resource components
• Figure 4.3. Consumer health information center: Interior design sketch. Design reflects storage for resources, comfort, and privacy. Windows and glass in door allow for openness and contact with outside surroundings.Drawing by Richard H. Hendler
• Figure 4.4. The Consumer Health Center, Frankfield County Public Library,Lancaster, Ohio. Courtesy of the Frankfield County Library
• Figure 4.5. Consumer health pamphlet issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Courtesy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Figure 5.1. Health information pamphlet for parents. Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control
• Figure 5.2. Low-literacy health pamphlet produced for the National Cancer Institute by Clear Language Group. Courtesy of the National Health Institute
• Figure 6.1. Information in an ecological family system
• Figure 6.2. Clarification in librarian–family centered information-helping relationships
• Figure. 7.1. Lewin’s Force Field Analysis model
• Figure 7.2. Model Christy Turlington appearing in the “Celebrities against Smoking” series. Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Figure 7.3. The Brain Train: How to Keep Our Brain Healthy and Wise by Frances Meiser. Published by permission of Frances Meiser. Copyright 1997 by Frances Meiser
• Figure 7.4. Social marketing model for teacher-librarian collaboration. A version of this model appeared in B. Immroth and W. B. Lukenbill, “Teacher-School Library Media Specialists Collaboration through Social Marketing Strategies: An Information Behavior Study,” School Library Media Research 10 (2007)
• Figure 8.1. Clara Barton, first president of the American Red Cross. Line drawing by Richard H. Hendler
• Figure 8.2. Leaders in medicine. Pictured left to right are Crawford Long, the Mayo Brothers, Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary Edwards Walker (center), and Walter Reed. Images from U.S. postage stamps honoring medical leaders and archival materials from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
• Figure 9.1. Positive and negative forces influencing the use of available health information technologies. Rio Grande Valley Secondary School Education for Health Workers: models and examples
• Figure 9.2. Biblioteca Las Américas in the evening hours of operation. Photo by Sara Reibman; courtesy of the South Texas Independent School District
• Figure 10.1. Basic health information and the collection development process
• Figure 12.1. Male genitalia illustration from Confidential Talks with Young Men, published by F. H. Revell Co., 1893
• Figure 13.1. The youth librarian as health information gatekeeper
• Figure A.1. Research interview protocol for librarians as health information gatekeepers