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Health Information Resources for Asian Americans from the National Library of Medicine Laura Bartlett, MLS Technical Information Specialist Outreach and Special Populations Branch
Health Information Resources for Asian Americans
from the National Library of Medicine
Laura Bartlett, MLS Technical Information Specialist
Outreach and Special Populations Branch
About
• National collaborative partnership • database of quality multilingual, public
health resources • Features:
– Health education materials – Provider tools
Background • Needed resource • Molded by stakeholders • Prototyped • Continual improvements
RHIN in transition • Changed name to HealthReach to
represent it as a database for ALL users of multi-language materials
• Acquiring the majority of the Asian American Health Web portal – Language section – Cultural information section
• Future online training efforts
Asian languages in HealthReach • Burmese • Cambodian • Cantonese • Chin, • Chin, Hakha • Chinese • Chinese Simplified • Hmong • Ilokano • Indonesian (Malay) • Japanese • Karen
• Karen (S’ghaw) • Khmer • Korean • Lao • Laotian • Mandarian • Marshallese • Samoan • Tagalog • Thai • Tibetan (Bhotia) • Vietnamese
South Asian languages in HealthReach
• Bengali • Dzongkha (Bhutanese) • Gujarati • Hindi • Malayalam • Marathi • Nepali • Pashto • Punjabi • Tamil (Malabar) • Urdu • Uzbek
Searching HealthReach
Search example
Search example, Diabetes
Search example, Diabetes, cont.
Split screen option
Search example, Diabetes, cont.
Split screen option
Advanced search
Advanced search example
Materials “share” features
Other tools
• “About HealthReach” – Search “Help” – Submitting your information resources – Text, images, and descriptions to help you link
to HealthReach from your website • “Contact Us” link
http://asian americanhealth
.nlm.nih.gov
Asian American Health Web Portal, cont.
• http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov • Started in 2000s • Evaluation conducted with CSAAH in 2013
– Need for materials in Asian languages for patients
– Need for data and research access; de-aggregated info.
• Re-envision the portal for 2015
Training from NLM • Capacity building and skills acquisition in
using biomedical and health databases • National Training Center • Web-based and distance education • In-person training at professionals
meetings and conferences – Delivered by NLM staff or contractors – Delivered by partners
Questions ?
National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894 1.888.Find.NLM (346.3656)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hinfo.html Thank you!
Laura Bartlett Technical Information Specialist
Outreach and Special Populations branch
National Library of Medicine
