What is it about?
This research is about how librarians can be effective healthcare advocates in a hospital setting.
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Why is it important?
Health literacy is dangerously low among US citizens. Librarians staffed within hospitals have tools to combat this.
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Librarians are vastly underused in healthcare settings, this is a great way to combat low health literacy via a resource the hospital already has access to.
Jessica Callaway
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This page is a summary of: Consumer Health and the Hospital Library- A Literacy Initiative, Journal of Hospital Librarianship, October 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/15323269.2019.1661724.
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