公众健康素养与图书馆

Health Literacy & Library

个体健康素养直接影响健康结局和医疗费用,也是人群健康差距的主要原因。无论是发达国家还是发展中国家,居民健康素养普遍偏低。教育和自主学习被认为是提高健康素养水平的重要举措。国外图书馆通过提供丰富的健康信息资源、与医学院校合作,提高医生健康信息素养、向公众推广健康信息资源的使用等方式积极参与提高公众健康素养。我国图书馆界应主动参与公众健康素养促进项目,不同类型图书馆定位好自己的服务人群和特色。

Individual health literacy directly affect health outcome and medical costs,and It＇s also the main reason of health disparities.Both developed countries and developing countries,public health literacy generally isn＇t enough.Education and self-teaching is considered as the best way of improving health literacy.By providing abundant health information resource,training medical colleges students to searching information skills,teaching the public how to use health information resources,libraries are supposed to play an important role in improving health literacy.