The Evolving Health Information Landscape Symposium: Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Distributed eLibrary

Research data are a variety of products produced during research that are collected, observed, or created for purposes of analysis to produce original research results. This may come in the form of instrument measurements, experimental observations, still images, video and audio, text documents, spreadsheets, databases, quantitative data (e.g., household survey data), survey results and interview transcripts, simulatio Read More

In the course of undergraduate medical education, some elements of health literacy and patient communication are integrated into the curriculum. Finding and assessing high-quality patient information is an element often tackled by liaison librarians. However, students require additional knowledge of the visual and written communication skills required to overcome barriers to positive patient interactions and outcomes, p Read More

Robust evidence synthesis methods are essential to collating and evaluating existing evidence rigorously and systematically. Retrieving all relevant literature is the first, fundamental step of evidence synthesis. This has become more challenging in many contemporary evidence syntheses due to 1) the volume and diversity of literature available; 2) the range and complexity of topics addressed; and 3) the ‘fuzziness’ of complex re Read More

Much of the world population now access health information online. However, navigating social media (SM) can become challenging with time constraints and information overload. Hashtags have gained increasing popularity to organize information in themes, topics, groups, or activities. SM users can generate information pockets by including the ‘#’ symbol to posted vocabulary or a series of characters. Carefully curated Read More

This study investigates the health information-seeking behaviours of women in Qatar, to identify sources and resources used to obtain health information, and particularly whether women used libraries as a source of health information. An online survey questionnaire was used to explore health information-seeking behaviour among adult women (aged 18 years or over) living in Qatar. Results were obtained from 1150 part Read More

Over the past 22 months or so, we have all worked and lived through a total societal event. We still are. It has been really the first time when, as public health practitioners and as people, we have been faced with the full impact of how much technological progress has changed how we connect with each other, how we make decisions, how we enact health behaviors, and how we influence each other in personal and prof Read More