University Health Center: Patient Education

Books from the Sourcebook series provide basic consumer-level information on a single health issue.


Here is a list to see the full range of topics available.

Librarians, social workers, teachers, and anyone seeking the best avenues to take for researching all major health issues will find themselves using the handbook and CD-ROM as a master map. Barclay and Halsted list and annotate hundreds of sources for consumer health information and illustrate the principles and practice of consumer-health librarianship. The CD-ROM includes templates for developing an effective consumer-health Web site and for designing in-house consumer-health information brochures. This practical guide covers standard resources for answering health-related questions, discusses the art of the health-reference interview, and touches on such related matters as the legal implications of providing consumer-health information. Without giving short shrift to the many indispensable printed consumer-health information resources, it puts a heavy emphasis on the use--and evaluation--of electronic health-information resources.