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Bringing together local, regional, and national public health information

Bringing together local, regional, and national public health information. Health Libraries Group 2010 Shannon Robalino – National Library for Public Health Gordon Watson – County Durham and Darlington Health Improvement Service. Knowledge for public health.

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Bringing together local, regional, and national public health information

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  1. Bringing together local, regional, and national public health information Health Libraries Group 2010 Shannon Robalino – National Library for Public Health Gordon Watson – County Durham and Darlington Health Improvement Service

  2. Knowledge for public health • “Applying what we know already will have a bigger impact on health and disease than any drug or technology likely to be introduced in the next decade.” • Sir Muir Gray, NHS Chief Knowledge Officer “…Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as applications which are pieced together… the applications are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the applications can run on any device, PC or mobile phone, the applications are very fast and they’re very customizable.” Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google

  3. Participants in the evidence project • National Library for Public Health (NHS Evidence – specialist collection) • Health Promotion Library, part of County Durham and Darlington Community Health Services

  4. National Library for Public Health library.nhs.uk/PUBLICHEALTH

  5. What the NLPH does • Provide high-level evidence-based public health information • Systematic reviews / meta-analyses • Guidelines • Policies & strategies • Other relevant information (e.g. news, events) • Annual Evidence Updates • Monthly newsletters

  6. Public Health Language • List of standardised terms to describe information • AKA thesaurus or taxonomy • Used by PHOs, some PCTs, public health / health promotion libraries and many others www.phl.nhs.uk

  7. History of Public Health Language • Merging of Public Health Information Tagging System (PHITS) and Government Classification Language (GCL) • Part of SNOMED (Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) which incorporates 1000s of terms from MeSH and other standarised medical languages

  8. Why is it important? • Terms and concepts standard across a discipline • Hierarchy not that important!

  9. Health Promotion Library • Uses a Discovery to Delivery model • Serving commissioner and provider services staff in a large geographical area with a population of about 600,000 in NE England • Other NHS staff – primary and secondary care • Local authority staff – community and social services • Education sector – primary, secondary, FE, HE • Community and voluntary sectors

  10. HPAC Library Management System • Library catalogue at www.hpac.cdd.nhs.uk • Web-based, using open source components • Dublin Core – online interoperable metadata standards • NLPH metadata harvested daily from NHS Evidence repository • Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) • Public Health Language

  11. Users reviews and recommendations • Review function in context of other web 2.0 features, such as personalised RSS feeds, favourites • Based on knowledge management model of After Action Reviews • In addition to rating the resource, users asked to share how the resource has been used, context and setting • Users who borrowed this also borrowed….

  12. How it works • Youth worker searches for a resource suitable for brief intervention on alcohol with young people Search User review of the resource and users who borrowed this also…. User finds a suitable resource in the library catalogue A systematic review on alcohol and young people from the National Library for Public Health Linked to Linked to

  13. How it looks in practice

  14. NLPH Evidence in HPAC • Clicking on the evidence link displays the evidence data in the same space and style as local resources with links directly to the original document and to the NLPH.

  15. Direct link to the original document

  16. Library user behaviour • Library users are frontline public health practitioners, not researchers or academics • 90 percent of all our requests for resources come through catalogue • Evidence is linked to resources they use in their everyday practice - one click away with no password in between • Maximum information for minimal effort

  17. Survey results and LMS logs • 550 registered library users – 25 percent response • 87 percent said they would find it useful in their work • 85 percent who had used it said they found it ‘very useful’ • 90 percent said they would find a resource recommendation feature useful • LMS logs show an average of 300 ‘clickthroughs’ to the evidence and guidance each month

  18. Outcomes • Integrating locally held resources with user experience (reviews), recommendations and expert knowledge (evidence) is providing a rich user experience and increasing the value of library content • Frontline practitioners are accessing the evidence and finding it useful in the context of their everyday work “It ties all the information, resources and stats together” – survey respondent

  19. Contact information • Shannon Robalino • Lead Information Specialist • National Library for Public Health • shannon.robalino@nepho.org.uk • Gordon Watson • Knowledge Manager • County Durham and Darlington • Health Improvement Service • gordon.watson@nhs.net

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