The Reading Agency, Society of Chief Librarians and several partner organisations are launching a booklet for primary healthcare professionals which o...
Open access. Online health information is increasingly popular and may bring both benefits and potential harm to users with mental health problems. The encouragement of harmful behaviour among this population is a particular concern. The website healthtalk.org provides the benefits of shared experience by publishing excerpts from rigorous research interviews with patients, contextualised with medical information. This article sets out evidence for the positive and negative effects of online mental health information and describes the methodology behind healthtalk.org, with an overview of the mental health information it provides and how it can benefit patients and health professionals.
This is a challenging time for all journals but particularly for those such as CAMH, which must achieve a balance between informing, influencing and transforming the quality and effectiveness of the mental healthcare available to children, young people, their parents and families, while endeavouring to publish high-quality scientific papers in terms of indicators such as the impact factor (IF). It is also a challenging time more widely in terms of the changing mental health needs of children, and the ability of CAMH services to meet them. This editorial discusses a number of changes that will be made the CAMH journal in 2017 to address these issues. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Conclusions: Our results provide a snapshot of the current evidence of effectiveness for a range of health-related apps. Large sample, high-quality, adequately powered, randomized controlled trials are required. In light of the bias evident in the included studies, better reporting of health-related app interventions is also required. The widespread adoption of mobile phones highlights a significant opportunity to impact health behaviors globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
Members of the Lords, including the chair of Penguin Random House UK, the executive chair of Books Beyond Words and the president of the British Dyslexia Association, debated the cultural, civic and educational significance in the UK of local libraries and independent bookshops, in the House of Lords on Thursday 13 October.
Figures released today by NHS Digital provide information on the prevalence of 21 conditions, including heart disease, hypertension, dementia, diabetes, and depression.
The Health Education England mandate for 2016 to 2017 reflects strategic objectives around:
workforce planning
health education
training and development
The mandate looks at how the healthcare workforce can be developed to improve care for patients through education and training.
People in Lichfield are being given the chance to see early plans for the city’s new library at two special drop-in events.
The information events on 10 November will give everyone an early opportunity to see for themselves how plans are progressing to create a vibrant, fully accessible and first-class library and new history access point within a revitalised St. Mary’s in the Market Square.
Background
Online health information seeking using social questions and answers (Social Q&A) sites has been increasingly popular in recent years. It calls for better understanding of health information seeking behaviour and interactions between information seekers and information providers.
Objectives
The study investigates how diet information seekers interact with information providers on WebMD Answers, which is a Social Q&A site devoted to health-related topics, and examines the factors that constitute a ‘helpful’ answer from an information seeker's perspective.
Interesting article about how empathy is no longer enough - empowerment and going the extra mile is required. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
THE HAGUE – On 10 November, the judges of the European Court decided that there is no difference between lending a paper book and lending an e-book. The European Court of Justice (CJEU) in Luxembourg ruled against the Dutch Public Lending Right Office (Stichting Leenrecht) in the case initiated by the Netherlands Association of Public Libraries (VOB).