Presentation for Washington State Refugee Community Building Conference 2002

Accessing Online Information for Immigrant and Refugee Health:

A description of a Harborview Project funded by the National Library of Medicine

Presenters:

Christine Wilson Owens, Program Coordinator, EthnoMed/Immigrant Communities Grants Program, Harborview Medical Center

tel. (206)521-1287, email cpw2@u.washington.edu

Ellen Howard, Head, KK Sherwood Library at Harborview

(206)341-4124, email ehh@u.washington.edu

URLs referred to in this talk:

The Project http://depts.washington.edu/ethnomed/HMCproject/HMCtrainer.html

Course Template http://depts.washington.edu/ethnomed/HMCproject/HarborviewProjectClassTemplate.htm

EthnoMed http://ethnomed.org

Objectives for Training Course

Find the health information you need: Use it to improve health

Part 1 Objective: Students will see that health information can matter in real life in the ___________ community and will be inspired to use information to improve health.

Part 2 Objective: Students will learn how to make sense of the page in front of them.

Part 3 Objective: Students will understand when the information type has met the need-when what they have found the right kind of answers the question they have.

Part 4 Objective: Students will be able to make an educated guess about who might collect and/or publish the health information they need.

Part 5 Objective: Students will have the skills to choose the information of the best quality that meets the need.

Part 6 Objective: Students will be able to state their health questions in such a way that answers can be looked for and found.

Part 7 Objective: Students will see some good health sites.

Part 8 Objective: Students will find some good information on a health topic.

Part 9 Objective: Students will appropriately use health information they find.

Part 10 Objective: Students will be able to tie the pieces of the information-seeking process together.