Information Literacy, Health Information Literacy, Health Literacy, -What are they

about?

Sangeeta NarangLibrarian Grade-I

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

India

Overview

• Introduction- Information landscape• Definition-Information Literacy (IL), Health Information

Literacy (HIL) & Health Literacy (HL)

• Literature Review (Refer paper in Library Herald)

• Observation• Conclusion• Outcome

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Information Landscape

• Information Overload• Technological challenges- aural, text, graphic• Complexity of information sources• Means of dissemination-social media• Advanced search techniques and methods• Highly interactive devices - smart phones, e-book

readers

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Study on IL, HIL and HL is important due to -

Information Literacy is the ability to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information (ALA 1989)

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Locate Evaluate Use

Source: http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency

Health Information Literacy is the set of abilities needed to recognize health information need; identify likely information sources and use them to retrieve relevant information; assess the quality of the information and its applicability to specific situation; and analyze, understand, and use the information to make good health decisions

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Health Information Literacy

Health Information

Literacy

Source: https://www.mlanet.org/resources/healthlit/define.html

Health Literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions

Source: http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/hlthlit.html

Obtain Process Understand Apply

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Literature search on Google Scholar and PubMed was conducted to find relevant papers on IL, HIL and HL especially those related to India were studied

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It was found that there are several studies on IL,HIL and HL from developed countries and few studies are available from India

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Conclusion

• Librarians play an important role in designing and teaching IL,HIL and HL based courses

• There is a need to conduct IL, HIL and HL based assessment study at various levels to improve the competency level of people in our country

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Outcome

Such studies will help to identify areas where improvement in practices would be beneficial and will enable to set out a course of action to improve the competency level of our people

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Thank You