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HISI Conference , 19 November 2008

HISI Conference , 19 November 2008. Sharing public health information Kevin P Balanda, IPH. Institute of Public Health in Ireland. All-Ireland body: North-South co-operation Inequalities in health Broad view of health and its determinants Three work strands: Capacity building

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HISI Conference , 19 November 2008

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  1. HISI Conference , 19 November 2008 Sharing public health information Kevin P Balanda, IPH

  2. Institute of Public Health in Ireland All-Ireland body: • North-South co-operation • Inequalities in health Broad view of health and its determinants Three work strands: • Capacity building • Policy support • Information and intelligence - INIsPHO 2008/2009 – 10 year anniversary

  3. Sharing public health information • How do we ensure that • Policy makers / clinicians / practitioners / others get information when they need it? • The experience of policy makers and practitioners is considered? • People also get the other contextual information they need?

  4. AIeHL – how it works • The AIeHL is a network of interoperable websites • All member websites contribute relevant resources • No repository, only a central metadata cache • XML feeds to the metadata cache • AIeHL website searches that central metadata cache • To retrieve a resource, visitor is directed to the member website that contributed it

  5. AIeHL - management • AIeHL Advisory Group • AIeHL Members Working Group • Working towards meeting standards of the Health Sciences Libraries Group (HSLG) • Formal participation in development of a number of international encoding schemes

  6. Some current members

  7. Addressing technical issues • Agreed core metadata standards: • “Subject” - PHL mapped to SNOMED • “Type” - PHRTES • Agreed tagging of resources • Modification to member websites • XML feeds

  8. Addressing organisational issues • More widely disseminate their resources • Places their resources in a broader context • Maintain “ownership” and “control” • Increases resources available to their visitors • It increases traffic to all member websites • Democratic” - agreed rules / all benefit equally/ different levels of participation

  9. Challenges ahead • Opportunity to develop a rational approach: content / quality / library standards • Management of growth (new members / use in two new research centres) • Promoting awareness of the library • Resources / funding • .

  10. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTIONwww.aiehl.org

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