Content focused on serving the needs of public health professionals, such as public and community health workers.
Effective Health Communication and Health Literacy: Understanding the Connection
How are health communication and health literacy connected? How can you be more effective in providing health information to consumers, patients, clients, library patrons and your community? This 1 hour webinar introduces the concepts of health literacy and health communication, outlines components of clear health communication, and identifies online resources from NLM, government agencies and other recognized resources for health literacy and health communication.
Emergency and Disaster Resources
From Problem to Prevention: Evidence-Based Public Health
This presentation meets the NLM/NIH strategic plan goal of building a workforce for data-driven research and health in order to address increasing health equity through information by using the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed bibliographic database and other freely available resources.
Health Misinformation Resources
Health Misinformation Webinar Series
Health misinformation is a widespread problem, with false or misleading information about both long standing health concerns like cancer and emergent situations like the COVID-19 pandemic spreading at a rapid pace. Sometimes questionable health information is obvious, but it can also be difficult to recognize and can potentially reach millions of people.
Health Statistics on the Web
This presentation meets the NLM/NIH strategic plan goal of building a workforce for data-driven research and health in order to address increasing health information access and use.
How PubMed Works
This series of four classes addresses increasing health information access and use by highlighting information about the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed bibliographic database.
How PubMed Works is a series of four 90-minute presentations. The individual classes are:
- How PubMed Works: Introduction
- How PubMed Works: Selection
- How PubMed Works: MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
- How PubMed Works: ATM (Automatic Term Mapping)
Register for each class separately.
How PubMed® Works On-Demand
Are you new to PubMed? Maybe you'd like a refresher. How PubMed Works On-Demand walks through all the parts of the PubMed interface.
Each class is designed to take approximately 90 minutes to complete, and each is worth 1.5 MLA CE credits.
You can start and stop at your convenience, and take only the classes that interest you. Each class is made up of a pre and post-test, a recording and an assignment.
The individual classes are: