Health Information and Libraries Journal - Virtual Issue

  Posted by Anthea

Health Information and Libraries Journal (HILJ) has just published its inaugural virtual issue.  The issue celebrates the contribution of health information in informing healthcare library and information provision.  It has been drawn together to reflect the 2010 biennial Health Libraries Group conference theme of Keeping Information Centre Stage Amid Changing Scenery and includes a series of eleven key papers published in the journal over the last two years.

All content in the virtual issue is free to access online at: http://www.wiley.com/bw/vi.asp?ref=1471-1834&site=1

ScHARR's very own Anna Cantrell (néeWilkinson), Diana Papaioannou, and Andrew Booth have a paper included in the virtual issue: The role of the information specialist in supporting knowledge transfer: a public health information case study written with Christine Keen from De Montfort University.  Andrew Booth also has a "Using Evidence in Practice" column in the issue, entitled Research or evaluation? Does it matter?

New staff member

Hi, my name is Louise Guillaume and I am the new Public Health Information Officer. I started work in Information Resources at the start of May. I previously worked in the Section of Public Health within ScHARR and before that in the School of Nursing and Midwifery and also studied at Sheffield for my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, so as you can tell, am very happy living in Sheffield!

I will primarily be working to provide information support to the Public Health Collaborating Centre at the University of Sheffield, but will be getting involved in all the work that the section does.

Everyone has made me feel very welcome since I started here and I look forward to meeting more people as I start working on the enquiry desk next week. Once I have a new photo of myself I will add it to the blog, until then you will have to put up with a picture of a stephanotis plant, like Angie and I have in our office.

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National Library for Public Health Medicine

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Posted by Andy

The National Library for Health has re-launched the National Library for Public Health Medicine (NLPH).

This is an online specialist library which replaces the Public Health electronic Library (PHeL). The library has been developed to provide high quality evidence e-based information on all aspects of public health. There are sections on the Choosing Health priority areas of obesity, mental health, sexual health, health inequalities, tobacco, children and young people and alcohol.

http://www.library.nhs.uk/publichealth/

New Report - Health effects of climate change in the UK 2008

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Posted by Andy

The Department of Health (DH) has published 'Health effects of climate change in the UK 2008: an update of the Department of Health report 2001/2002'. This is a DH-commissioned report written by a group of independent scientists, which updates their earlier report on the health effects of climate change, published in 2001/2002.

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NHS Choices website Update

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The Department of Health has announced an update of the NHS Choices website.

NHS Choices has new features, expanded content, and significantly enhanced navigation. The service is designed to help people make the most of their own health and get the best out of the UK’s healthcare system. People using the site can find good quality information about medical conditions, treatments, advice on healthy living, and comparative data on hospitals.

NHS Choices is a long-term project, which will continue to evolve over the next 18 months with new features and content added via a series of planned new releases. The new service is flexible and will continually improve and adapt in response to feedback from those in and outside, of the NHS.

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Bulletins/nhschoicesbulletin/index.htm

Public Health Lecture - Born in Bradford: A birth cohort study

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Born in Bradford: A birth cohort study

Public Health Lecture

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Professor Neil Small, Bradford University

12.30-1.30pm on Tuesday 16th October 2007
St George’s Lecture Theatre 2, Frederick Mappin Building,
University of Sheffield

Born in Bradford is recruiting 10000 babies and their parents. Recruitment began in March 2007 and we have 3000 mothers, 1000 fathers and nearly 1000 babies already recruited. Half of births in Bradford are to parents of Pakistani origin. This presentation will identify the public health context in which the study was developed - it will summarise steps taken to establish the cohort and will identify main research aims. The future plans for the cohort will be summarised including thoughts regarding studies on infant growth, diabetes, neurological illness and on the relationship between ethnicity, deprivation, social capital and early child development.(see http://www.borninbradford.nhs.uk/)
Neil Small is Professor of Health Research in Bradford University and is the academic lead for Born in Bradford. He is a sociologist by background and, prior to discovering how life can be easily be taken over by setting up big cohort studies, he studied chronic and life limiting illness.