222107 Finding public health evidence: A hands-on workshop

Saturday, November 6, 2010 : 1:40 PM - 3:30 PM

Mellanye J. Lackey, MSI , Health Sciences Library, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
The first half of the learning institute focuses on finding good quality information for the public health practitioner. Health information is abundant on the Internet, and it is easy to search and come up with a few web sites, but how can you tell if the information is reliable and trustworthy? By following a set of standards, the course will delineate the process through which one can filter out good materials from questionable health information. Students will be exposed to a range of quality sources to find interdisciplinary research, data sets, grey literature, and statistics. Lastly students will improve their expert search skills by learning to break down complicated questions into individual concepts and employ language effectively in the database search process. By learning strategies to develop sophisticated searches, they will improve their relevancy and accuracy, saving time and energy.

Learning Areas:
Communication and informatics
Other professions or practice related to public health
Public health or related education

Learning Objectives:
Construct a strategic and valuable search strategy.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I'm qualified to be planning, coordinating or organizing because I have extensive experience in designing educational activities regarding information literacy competencies for students, faculty, staff, and practitioners in public health. This experience includes integrating searching online bibliographic citation databases (such as PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, PsycINFO, etc.), researching statistical data from international, national, or local sources and organizing information retrieval into bibliographic management software (e.g. EndNote, RefWorks).
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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