Day: December 14, 2009

RSVP by Monday, January 25th to Judy Bolstad at jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.

* Does your work at CDPH involve health promotion, health communication, or health education?

* Are you interested in learning about toolkits and other resources that will help you develop a health intervention?

* Know you need some resources to help you get started with evaluating a project with which you are involved?

* Interested in how to find literature on health promotion/education?

* Do you need to develop consumer health handouts?

* Want to know about quality sources for consumer health information, including non-English language handouts and materials?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Health Promotion and Health Education Resources class!

Topics covered will include:
1. Resource Toolkits for Developing Programs
2. “Best Practices” in Health Education/Promotion
3. Evaluation Resources
4. Finding Health Education Literature
5. Patient/Consumer Health Education Materials

Class: Health Promotion and Health Education
When: Wednesday, January 27th, 1:30-2:30 pm
Where: CDPH Sacramento, 1500 Capitol Ave, Training Room A (72.151). 

Audience:
This class is intended for CDPH staff who are new to health promotion/education or those who would like a refresher on freely available online resources.

If you wish to attend, please RSVP by Monday, January 25th to Judy Bolstad at
jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu, or (510) 642-2510.

These one-hour training sessions are free to CDPH employees.  Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.

RSVP by Monday, January 11th to Judy Bolstad at jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.

* Need to find literature on food and nutrition and their relationship to health?
* Want to know the nutritive value of different kinds of foods, from broccoli to Big Macs?
* Need to know the latest on E. coli?
* Interested in how many fruits and vegetables Californians eat daily?
* Want to know about quality sources of food/nutrition information for consumers?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s Food/Nutrition Resources class!

Some of the topics that will be covered:
1. Using bibliographic databases such as Agricola to find journal articles on food and nutrition topics
2. Resources for finding the nutritive value of foods
3. Finding statistics on food consumption
4. Information on food safety and pesticides
5. Information for consumers or for developing consumer material

Class: Food/Nutrition Resources
When: Wednesday, January 13th, 10-11 am
Where: CDPH Richmond Campus, Building C, Room 136 

Audience:
This class is intended for CDPH staff whose work requires knowledge of quality Internet resources on food/nutrition topics.

If you wish to attend, please RSVP by Monday, January 11th to Judy Bolstad at
jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.

These one-hour training sessions are free to CDPH employees. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.

RSVP by Monday, January 4th to Judy Bolstad at jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510. Limit of 12 participants.

* Do you need to find health/medical journal literature?
* Are you having trouble accessing full text articles from your desktop?
* Do you get too many or too few search results when searching PubMed?
* Are you already using PubMed and have some burning questions?
* Do you want help exploring PubMed’s new interface?
* Are you interested in a hands-on session so you can learn and practice using PubMed?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, then please come to the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library’s PubMed Basics, The New Interface Hands on class! 

Topics covered will include:
1. Introduction to PubMed
2. Retrieving Full Text Using the CDPH PubMed URL
3. Effective Keyword Searching Using Boolean Logic
4. The New Interface: What’s Changed
5. Using Advanced Search
6. Finding and Using Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) Terms
7. Other PubMed Features

Class: PubMed Basics, The New Interface Hands On
When: Wednesday, January 6th, 10:30am-12 pm
Where: CDPH Sacramento, 1500 Capitol Ave, Computer Training Room (72.169)

Audience:
This class is intended for CDPH staff new to PubMed, those who may have some basic understanding of PubMed but don’t know how to use its features, and for those wanting to explore the new PubMed interface.

If you wish to attend, please RSVP by Monday, January 4th to Judy Bolstad at:
jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2510.

Please note: This class is limited to 12 participants.  A waiting list will be created, if necessary, for an additional class.

These Hands On training sessions are free to CDPH employees. Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.