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Dragonfly

Winter 2002 -- Volume 33, Number 1

Network Members "Reach Out" to New Audiences

Oregon Health & Science University and the AHEC of Southwest Oregon have begun new outreach projects, with funding from the Pacific Northwest RML. Target audiences for health information outreach continue to expand, and these members will be working with partners in exciting new areas.

OHSU will use its resource library subcontract funding to support "Finding It on the Internet: Health Access for Elders." Using a web page designed by elders and persons from the OHSU Division of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research, OHSU Library, and the OHSU Center for Healthy Aging, elders will be able to find information on health, illness, end of life issues, and other health-related topics of interest. The site will contain links to established websites as well as original content written by nursing faculty at OHSU. It will also contain information on local organizations that work with elders. As part of its planning and evaluation component, the project will provide data comparing what participants say is useful site design with generally accepted best practice for usability. This research should be useful to others developing websites for seniors. Dolores Judkins is the project director.

Brendan Ashby and colleagues at the Southwest Oregon Area Health Education Center are creating Cyber Health Camp to provide high school youth and educators with a regional health career and medical issues information repository. A web-based interactive application will allow students from disadvantaged backgrounds to develop Internet skills and to access information on health careers, rural health opportunities, a health calendar of events and programs, university and college health-related programs, scholarships, and regional health institutions. The Cyber Camp program is the culmination of multiple collaborative activities including partners from high schools, universities, hospitals and other community based organizations.

Summaries of current, as well as recently completed projects are available on the RML Funding Opportunities page at http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding/oldproj.html

Dragonfly, Winter, 2002 -- Vol.33, Number 1
(posted on PNRNews January 7, 2002)

This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.

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Network Members "Reach Out" to New Audiences

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