Day: April 5, 2013

Health Promotion and Health Education Resources class: Richmond, April 10

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* 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 education or promotion?

* 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’ve 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

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RSVP by Monday, April 8, to Michael Sholinbeck at msholinb@library.berkeley.edu or by phone at (510) 642-2510.

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Class: Health Promotion and Health Education Resources
When: Wednesday, April 10, 2013,10:00am – 11:00am
Where: CDPH Richmond Campus, Building C, Room 140

Class Objectives:
This class is for CDPH staff who need to use quality health promotion and health education tools and resources in support of their work. Use of these resources will assist with efficiently developing effective, evidence-based health promotion programs. The resources and tools shown will assist in staff skill development.

Audience:
This class is intended for CDPH staff who are new to health promotion/health education or those who would like an introduction to quality resources that are freely available online.

Supervisors: Please encourage your staff to attend if appropriate.

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

Webinar–Violence Across the Lifespan: A Healthy People 2020 Progress Review

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Do you ever wonder how much progress we’ve made as a nation in curbing violence? Do you want to learn about efforts by the US HHS to address this issue? If yes, then you might want to listen to the webinar Violence Across the Lifespan: A Healthy People 2020 Progress Review to be held on April 18 at 12:30pm Eastern Daylight Time.

Brought to you by the Injury and Violence Prevention and Occupational Safety and Health workgroups, you’ll get the latest information from presenters who include Dr. Howard Koh (Assistant Secretary for Health), Dr. Edward Sondik (Director of the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics), Dawn Castillo (Director of the Division of Safety Research, NIOSH), and Matt London (NY State Employees Federation).

For more information and to register, go here.

Want to find More Information on Research Funded by a Federal Grant?

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Journal articles often mention the funding agency who provided the support for the research on which the article is based. Since 1981, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has routinely included the grant or contract number(s) in the MEDLINE/PubMed citation when the funding support is from one of the US Public Health Service (PHS) agencies.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are some of the agencies of the PHS.

PubMed’s grant number search field includes research grant numbers, contract numbers, or both that designate financial support by agencies of the US PHS, and other national or international funding sources. The four parts of the grant data are:

1. The number itself, e.g., LM05545
2. The PHS 2-character grant abbreviation, e.g., LM
3. The institute acronym, e.g., NLM NIH HHS
4. The country, e.g., United States

Each individual grant part can be searched using the search field tag [gr], e.g., NIH[gr]. Note: This particular search retrieves over 1,778,000 results.

PubMed has a searchable list of grant codes and agency abbreviations used in grant numbers for you.

Another way to find information on research funded by a particular Federal grant is to use the NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT). Federal grant numbers may be used here to search for: investigators, institutions, funding amounts, results (ie, publications), clinical studies, and more.

Remember to Use the Custom CDPH Link to PubMed to Easily Access Full Text Articles

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The custom CDPH link to PubMed allows for one-click access to articles available to you from your desktop. The CDPH PubMed URL provides direct access to Ovid journal articles as well as free online articles. PubMed search results have links indicating that the articles are available full-text: “UCB PHL: CDPH Journals” and “Free Full Text”.

Click the title link of any article in the Free Full Text or CDPH Journals links to see an icon that says “UCB PHL-CDPH Journals”. Click on this icon to view your journal article.

New PubMed Feature: Author Keywords

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Providing you with more ways to search, author-provided keywords, if provided by publishers, will now be showing up in the in the Abstract, MEDLINE, and XML displays. Just so you know, PubMed will not review these author keywords for accuracy or add them to non-publisher supplied citations.

To search for author keywords, type in the search box without any tags (e.g., TI, AB) or search using the Other Term [OT] or Text Word [TW] tags (e.g., antimicrobials[OT] or antimicrobials[TW]).

Want to see an example of this? Search PubMed for the article titled Antimicrobials: Strategies for targeting obesity and metabolic health?

Currently, author keywords will not import into EndNote or Reference Manager. Another announcement will be made when new PubMed import filters are available.

More information is available here.

New Books!

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The Public Health Library has the following new books available:

1. Essentials of health, culture, and diversity: understanding people, reducing disparities. By Mark Cameron Edberg. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2013. Call number: RA418 .E327 2013.

2. Public health for an aging society. By Thomas R Prohaska, Lynda A Anderson and Robert H Binstock. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Call number: RA564.8 .P84 2012.

3. Health behavior theory for public health : principles, foundations, and applications. By Ralph J DiClemente, Laura Francisca Salazar and Richard A Crosby. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2013. Call number: RA776.9 .D55 2013.

4. Global health in the 21st century: the globalization of disease and wellness. By Debra L DeLaet and David E DeLaet. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2012. Call number: RA441 .D45 2012.

5. Long shot: vaccines for national defense. By Kendall Hoyt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. Call number: RA638 .H69 2012.

Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.

You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).

If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.

New Books!

Posted on by UC Berkeley Library

The Public Health Library has the following new books available:

1. Essentials of health, culture, and diversity: understanding people, reducing disparities. By Mark Cameron Edberg. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2013. Call number: RA418 .E327 2013.

2. Public health for an aging society. By Thomas R Prohaska, Lynda A Anderson and Robert H Binstock. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Call number: RA564.8 .P84 2012.

3. Health behavior theory for public health : principles, foundations, and applications. By Ralph J DiClemente, Laura Francisca Salazar and Richard A Crosby. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2013. Call number: RA776.9 .D55 2013.

4. Global health in the 21st century: the globalization of disease and wellness. By Debra L DeLaet and David E DeLaet. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2012. Call number: RA441 .D45 2012.

5. Long shot: vaccines for national defense. By Kendall Hoyt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. Call number: RA638 .H69 2012.

Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.

You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).

If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.

DataUp Workshop with Carly Strasser on April 11, 11am-12pm

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DataUp

Do you use Microsoft® Excel to record, store, or analyze your data? DataUp is a free, open-source tool that integrates with Excel to help you:

  • follow data management best practices to insure your data are well-formatted and -organized
  • describe your data in a standard format for archiving and discovery
  • assign a permanent identifier so that your data can be cited
  • upload your data to a repository for archiving and sharing

Carly Strasser, Data Curation Project Manager for the UC Curation Center (UC3) of the California Digital Library, has been working on the development of DataUp since the project’s inception. She will be presenting a hands-on workshop on DataUp’s features, use, and future plans:

Date: Thursday, April 11
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Place: Bioscience & Natural Resources Library training room (2189 VLSB)

We hope to see you there.

This post originally appeared on the Science & Engineering Libraries News blog.