Bookedited by Catherine Arnott Smith and Alla Keselman.
Contents:
1. Designing health information programs to promote the health and well-being of vulnerable populations: the benefits of evidence-based strategic health communication / Gary L. Kreps and Linda Neuhauser
2. Health literacy research's growth, challenges, and frontiers / Robert A. Logan
3. Medical information for the consumer before the World Wide Web / Catherine Arnott Smith
4. Ethical health information: Do it well! Do it right! Do no harm! / Michelynn McKnight
5. Health information resource provision in the public library setting / Mary Grace Flaherty
6. Who needs a health librarian? Ethical reference transactions in the consumer health library / Nancy C. Seeger
7. Consumer health information: the community college conundrum / Anne Chernaik
8. Health information delivery outside the clinic in a developing nation: The Qatar Cancer Society in the State of Qatar / Ellen N. Sayed and Alan S. Weber
9. Health information and older adults / Kay Hogan Smith
10. Re-envisioning the health information-seeking conversation: insights from a community center / Prudence W. Dalrymple and Lisl Zach
11. For the mutual benefit: health information provision in the science classroom / Albert Zeyer, Daniel M. Levin and Alla Keselman
12. "You will be glad you hung on to this quit": sharing information and giving support when stopping smoking online / Marie-Thérèse Rudolf von Rohr
13. Health information in bits and bytes: considerations and challenges of digital health communication / Clare Tobin Lence and Korey Capozza
14. Does specialization matter? How journalistic expertise explains differences in health-care coverage / Michael W. Wagner
Afterword
Index.