Public Health Workers Access to Electronic Health Information

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Public Health Workers Access to Electronic Health Information

Abstract

The goals of this project were to reach public health workers in Kansas with current, reliable, authoritative and reviewed medical public health information. Four avenues were used to reach this goal: a web site was developed, a CD was produced as a take home tool, presentations were made at annual conferences, and each county health department was mailed a packet of our information including the CD. Our objectives and goals were met because we reached public health workers in Kansas, when they had a strong need for this information. We were thanked repeatedly at each conference for bringing this information together in one web site, for presenting at the conferences to disperse this information, and for providing the CD as a take home tool. This grant enabled us to educate Kansans about public health by demonstrating the value of our created web site www.kspublichealth.org and by presenting searching techniques for PubMed, MedlinePlus, Clinical Trials, Healthy Products Database, TOXNET, and Haz-Map. Each presentation was tailored to the needs of each specific audience and attendees departed with a CD as a take home tool.