Beyond an Apple A Day

It’s not always easy finding authoritative health information for the general public on the Internet especially for patients and their families. This program will focus on assisting the lay person who have questions on health and medical problems. Areas to be discussed include finding knowledge about symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments for diseases and medical conditions. Databases such as MedlinePlus and Pubmed, government websites (Center for Disease Control and the FDA), and new resources such as Health-E Illinois—A Go Local Project will be examined. Detailed instruction will be given on how Health-E Illinois works in conjunction with MedlinePlus, making it easy for you to search local area healthcare services and providers for medical help. The class also covers criteria for the evaluation of health & wellness sites.

The Health-E Illinois outreach staff is happy to come to your institution or groups and present Beyond an Apple a Day. This class can be tailored to meet the needs of your group. Classes run 1-2 hours depending on your needs. If you would like more information or you would like to sign up for a class, please contact Jan at 708-216 9192 or jbehnke@lumc.edu.

The outreach team has created a tri-fold brochure, flyer and PowerPoint for an outreach class. Below is the class description. Anyone who wish to teach this class is welcome to use the resources that we have created.There are several versions of the this class. Below are links to two PowerPoints from classes we have given in the past.

Beyond an Apple a Day Consumer Health for the Librarian

Health Literacy for the Consumer

Click here for the course description flyer in pdf format. . Click here for tri-fold brochure in pdf format. Feel free to reproduce or alter these documents. On the tri-fold brochure, we have left a blank space for your to add your library’s information.