Featuring Rural Health
We would like to thank our newly created NNLM Reading Club Advisory Group which is made up of NNLM Members who worked together to select the three books we are featuring this month in recognition of Rural Health.
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial by Corban Addison
The Most Costly Journey edited by Marek Bennett
The Hospital: Life, Death and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander
NNLM Books and health information resources are available from our Reading Club website: Rural Health | Reading Club | NNLM.
Also join us this month for the NNLM Rural Health Webinar Series, an exploration of the efforts that communities take to address the unique health needs of rural populations in the United States. All events are held at 2pm ET/1pm CT/12pm MT/11am PT.
November 6, 2024 Building Healthy, Resilient Communities in Florida’s Rural Panhandle | This presentation will provide an overview of preliminary data from opioid users and library directors across the nation.
November 7, 2024 Facilitating Rural Access to Quality Health Information through Little Free Libraries | This presentation will address an NNLM grant-funded community partnership between a public library and a university health science library.
November 12, 2024 Graphic Medicine Discussion: The Most Costly Journey | Participate in a discussion of the book The Most Costly Journey, one of our feature books this month, covering topics such as the intersection of race, immigration status and geography on mental health, the uses of graphic medicine to tell overlooked stories, and more.
November 13, 2024 When Your Community Is Your Hospital | This presentation will provide an overview of a partnership that connected organizations in the rural northern region of California with a bilingual health educator and delivered local trainings, both in English and Spanish, that allowed community health workers to learn among their peers about the health information resources from the National Library of Medicine and other resources in their communities.
November 14, 2024 Promoting Walking for Health in Rural Communities | Rural American adults have higher rates of chronic physical activity-related illness and are less active than their urban counterparts, with less than 20% meeting U.S. physical activity guidelines of 150-300 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week.
November 19, 2024 Palmetto Connect: Fostering Digital Inclusion in Rural South Carolina | This session will cover a program designed to help close the digital divide for residents in rural and underserved areas of South Carolina by increasing internet access and affordability, training people in digital literacy, and connecting individuals to quality-of-life resources such as telehealth through digital inclusion.
November 20, 2024 Social Connectedness and Improving the Health of Rural Communities | This presentation will review possible interventions for improving rural community health through social connectedness. November 21, 2024 Rural Health Resources | NNLM This webinar will describe hallmarks of rural America, identify access challenges of living in rural communities, and equip participants with tools to service the health information needs of those living in rural communities.
November 21, 2024 Rural Health Resources | This webinar will describe hallmarks of rural America, identify access challenges of living in rural communities, and equip participants with tools to service the health information needs of those living in rural communities.