Meeting Health Information Needs Outside Of Healthcare : Opportunities and Challenges

Meeting Health Information Needs Outside of Healthcare addresses the challenges and ethical dilemmas concerning the delivery of health information to the general public in a variety of non-clinical settings, both in-person and via information technology, in settings from public and academic libraries to online communities and traditional and social media channels. Professionals working in a range of fields, including librarianship, computer science and health information technology, journalism, and health communication can be involved in providing consumer health information, or health information targeting laypeople.

This volume clearly examines the properties of health information that make it particularly challenging information to provide in diverse settings.