http://www.ready.gov/america/npm08/

September is National Preparedness Month. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Ready Campaign. This year the focus of NPM is to encourage citizens to take important preparedness steps:

• Get a Kit
• Make a Plan
• Be Informed
• Get Involved

Planning to stay in business: aka keeping the library running

• Download and order all Ready publications, they cover the following key topics: http://www.ready.gov/america/publications/allpubs.html
• Overview
• Be Informed
• Continuity Planning
• Emergency Planning
• Emergency Supplies
• Deciding to Stay or Go
• Fire Safety

http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/cholmonth/

When it comes to cholesterol, it’s good to know your numbers. High blood cholesterol increases your risk for heart disease and heart attack, and lowering it decreases that risk.

September is National Cholesterol Education Month, a great time to learn about high blood cholesterol, especially if you are among the 65 million Americans who have this condition. It is also a good time to sponsor cholesterol screening and education events.

The NHLBI offers many resources to help you prepare for National Cholesterol Education Month. They are featured on the National Cholesterol Education Month Web page at http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/cholmonth/.

Get your worksite, health or community center, HMO, social organization, or faith-based group involved. In addition to organizing screenings, offer cholesterol education sessions and distribute printed take-home materials. Ideas for fun activities include heart healthy cooking demonstrations, taste tests, and cafeteria menus; pot luck dinners with dishes low in saturated fat and cholesterol; and bulletin board displays or e-mail newsletters with tips for lifestyle changes that foster lower cholesterol levels.

September is right around the corner. Visit the National Cholesterol Education Month Web site at http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/cholmonth/ to get a jump start.

Andrew Pleasant, Assistant Professor, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, has developed an HTML page with the syllabus/curricula that National Institute for Literacy, Health and Literacy listserv members have submitted.  See the link below: http://www.advancinghealthliteracy.com/curricula.html.

Curricula are organized by the following types:

• University Courses
• Medical School Courses
• Professional Training Programs
• Adult Basic Education/ESL/ENL Program Courses.

 Andrew Pleasant
phone: 732-932-9153 x. 320; fax: 732-932-6667

To determine what journals submit All NIH-funded final published articles to PubMed Central, go to http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm. The journals listed here make the final published version of every NIH-funded paper publicly available in PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication, without author involvement.  These deposits are in accord with the NIH Public Access Policy.

If you publish anywhere else, deposit the manuscript in PubMed Central via one of the options described at http://publicaccess.nih.gov. There are four methods to ensure that a manuscript is submitted to PubMed Central in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. 

Method 1: Make arrangements to have a publisher deposit a specific final published article in PubMed Central.

Method 2: Deposit the final peer-reviewed manuscript in PMC yourself via the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS).

Method 3: Complete the submission process for a final peer-reviewed manuscript that the publisher has deposited in the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS)

NN/LM Emergency Preparedness and Response Toolkit: Library Disaster Stories

In 2007, several NN/LM librarians from across the United States generously shared their personal stories about disaster or emergency situations with Robin Featherstone, a National Library of Medicine (NLM) Associate Fellow. As was originally planned, a Web site has been created to provide a platform for sharing these stories. The site created includes an individual link for each of the stories, the ability for others to comment on posted stories, and a Google map, which will help visualization of the diversity among the stories. By clicking on each of the individual icons on the Google Map, users will be linked to the individual stories. The Library Disaster Stories site is a part of the NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit (http://nnlm.gov/ep/) and can be found here: http://nnlm.gov/ep/lessons-learnedstories-told/

Soon, all of the stories will be individually listed under the Google Map. In addition, a “Submit Your Own Story” function will be added, which will open up the possibilities of this site. Though very appreciative of the librarians who have shared their stories, the hope is that this site will encourage others to share their experiences, too.  

If you have questions about the site or the submission of stories, you may contact Dan Wilson (editor of the NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit) at dtw2t@eservices.virginia.edu or Susan Yowell (project assistant) at ssy2n@virginia.edu.

 Subscribe to a New NIH Listserv: DISASTR-OUTREACH-LIB.

This new listserv is a discussion forum for librarians and information specialists interested in responding to their community’s needs for information services in support of disaster preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery. It will also be the primary source for information on the activities of the Disaster Information Specialist Pilot Project. List members may also post announcements of meetings, training, conferences, job openings, etc. of interest to those involved in disaster information outreach. The listserv is provided by the National Library of Medicine’s Disaster Information Management Research Center.

To join the new list, please send the following text in the body of an email to listserv@list.nih.gov:     SUBSCRIBE DISASTR-OUTREACH-LIB your name.

August 11, 2008s MedlinePlus podcast from the National Library of Medicine covers data about provider and patient perceptions and the adoption of EMRs. To access the podcast and transcript, go to: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript081108.html

MedlinePlus’ personal health records health topic page provides a one stop resource to follow physician adoption issues, as well as obtain practical advice on how to maintain your own, personal health record. It can be found at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/personalmedicalrecords.html

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja08/ja08_senior_health.html

http://nihseniorhealth.gov/

NIHSeniorHealth, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) consumer health Web site for older adults developed by the National Institute on Aging and the National Library of Medicine®, released its redesigned site in late June. As NIHSeniorHealth has grown from ten topics in 2003 to thirty-seven topics and added features such as exercise stories and more than ninety-five health videos, the site outgrew its original navigation structure. The new design (see below) allows users to find a topic more quickly, watch a video, or learn about other senior-friendly resources available from the NIH.

Homepage
The homepage includes enhanced navigation for health topics by First letter and Categories in the middle of the page. For example, Osteoporosis as a topic may be accessed by selecting the letter ‘O’ from the A to Z list or Bones and Joints under Categories. Each month a new or updated topic is highlighted in the Featured Topic section. The sections on Exercise Stories, Health Videos, and the Trainer’s Toolkit appear below the new navigation.

http://nationalacademies.org/headlines/20080801.html

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recognize August as National Immunization Awareness Month. Immunization, noted as one of the most significant health interventions of the 20th century, has helped eradicate smallpox worldwide, virtually eliminated polio from this hemisphere, and significantly reduced the occurrence of measles, diphtheria, rubella, pertussis, and other diseases in the U.S. While many people are routinely immunized, there are still tens of thousands of deaths around the world caused by vaccine-preventable diseases.

 A variety of resources promoting immunization and NIAM can be found at the links below. You may want to consider customizing these tools for use locally.

• Adult immunization schedule
• Childhood and adolescent immunization schedule
• Parents Guide to Childhood Immunization
• National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) materials
  Flyers, posters, brochures, public service announcements (PSAs) etc.
• Links to immunization campaign materials: infants and pre-teens

http://foundation.acponline.org/hl/hcc2008.htm

The American College of Physicians (ACP) Foundation will host its Seventh Annual National Health Communication Conference, New Directions in Health Literacy, on November 19, 2008. The conference will be co-sponsored by the Institute of Medicine and held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.

This year’s conference will focus on the impact of low health literacy on healthcare quality, medication labels, physicians’ practices, and the linkages between literacy and health literacy. For conference information and to register, visit
http://foundation.acponline.org/hl/hcc2008.htm

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja08/ja08_hsr_self_study.html

The e-learning course Introduction to Health Services Research: A Self-Study Course is a free and open set of modules and case studies that students may study as time permits This is a self-paced course with no instructor.

The completely revised e-learning course introduces students to health services research - its key issues, its history, the innovators and leaders who contributed to the field’s development, and the many key organizations that produce and make health services research accessible to researchers, librarians and the public.

To get the most out of the course, students should have a basic knowledge of bibliographic database searching, especially of the MEDLINE®/PubMed®database. Other than that, only an interest in finding and/or providing quality information is needed.

It is recommended that students begin with the introductory module, “Module 1: What is Health Services Research?” and work their way through the remaining six modules in order. Students who are already knowledgeable about health services research may wish to focus on the five case studies.

Students will gain skills that will aid them in searching for information in this multi-disciplinary field and will be introduced to several of the key study types that create the foundation of research methodology used by health services researchers.

The e-learning course was adapted into a true Web-based format in 2007 for the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology of the National Library of Medicine® by Laura Larsson, MLS. She updated its content at the same time.

Upon completion of the class, please take a moment to complete the ten-question evaluation. NLM will use this information to improve this and future online learning efforts.