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Introduction to
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Introduction to PHIL
Public Health Information Links for Nevada (PHIL) is funded by
the National Library of Medicine through the Pacific Southwest
Regional Medical Library at UCLA, under Purchase Order
#5415-G-9B43700. The Savitt Medical Library at the University of Nevada,
Reno is conducting the project. The newsletter below was released in Spring 1999 to introduce
PHIL to the public.
Do You Know P.H.I.L.?
The Savitt Medical Library at the University of Nevada School of
Medicine has received funding from the National Library of Medicine,
through a two year contract with the Pacific Southwest Regional
Medical Library at UCLA, to complete a comprehensive statewide
outreach effort for Nevada’s public health professionals. The
awarding of this project, entitled Public Health Information Link
for Nevada (P.H.I.L.), was first announced at the NPHA/NEHA annual
meeting in Reno on October 21, 1998.
P.H.I.L. targets
public health professionals working for the two county health
departments, the Nevada State Health Division, the Nevada State
Health Laboratory, the Nevada Rural Health Centers, Inc., and the
U. S. Indian Health Service.
P.H.I.L.’s goals are:
- Provide training for public
health professionals in searching the Internet, the MEDLINE
database PubMed, and other NLM databases. Training will be
given throughout the state over the next two years. Many
sessions will be hands on in computer labs. Follow up training
using video conferencing will be tested in year two.
- Develop a public health
information website with input by representatives from the
Nevada Public Health Association, the Nevada Environmental
Health Association, and Nevada’s public health agencies.
This site will be located on the medical library’s web
server. It will seek to centralize access to relevant sources
in support of the information needs of Nevada’s public
health professionals. Efforts will be made to identify,
digitize, and make available on the web site unpublished
"gray" literature and data generated by public
health agencies in Nevada.
- Establish site coordinators with
all participating public health agencies and professional
associations to help coordinate efforts of publicity,
training, web development and technology consultation.
- Promote awareness of the project
and the public health information resources by creating the
web site, writing articles for newsletters and newspapers,
exhibiting or presenting sessions at state and regional
meetings, and submitting papers for publication.
Project coordinators Joan Zenan,
Terry Henner, and Patricia Charles, conducted focus group sessions
with staff from the Clark County Health Department, the Washoe
County District Health Department, the Nevada State Health
Division, the Nevada State Health Laboratory, and the U.S. Indian
Health Service, in December 1998, and January and February 1999.
They are now analyzing the information gathered from the focus
groups in order to plan a comprehensive and focused series of
training sessions. A report on the focus group process and the
analysis of the information needs of Nevada’s public health
professionals will be distributed to the site contact at each
agency in April. Training and initial website planning will
begin in late April and early May.
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Quarterly Reports
The quarterly reports from this
project are also available online from the National Network of
Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region.
April 1 - June 30, 1999
January 1 - March 31, 1999
October 1, 1998 - December 31,
1998
Contacting
PHIL
Terry A. Henner, M.A.
Head
Savitt Medical Library
University of Nevada School of Medicine
e-mail: thenner@admin.unr.edu
phone: 775-784-4625
fax: 775-784-4489
mail:
Savitt Medical Library
Savitt
Medical Sciences Building/306
Reno, NV 89557-0046
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