The Arizona Turning Point Project: Developing a Partnership between Libraries and Public Health Departments to Improve

Access to Public and Consumer Health Information for All Arizonans

Patricia Auflick, Paul Bracke, David Howse, Jeanette McCray, Mary Riordan, University of Arizona Health Sciences Library, Tucson; Jane Kolbe, Arizona

State Library, Archives, and Public Records; Michael Kronenfeld, Arizona School of Health Sciences, Mesa, AZ; Michelle Ochillo, Associate Fellow, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; Catherine Riley, Maricopa County Department of Public Health and Arizona Turning Point Project.

AZHealthInfo.org is a Web-based resource AZHealthInfo.org is a Web-based resource designed to facilitate access to public health and designed to facilitate access to public health and consumer health information for public health consumer health information for public health professionals and the citizens of Arizona.professionals and the citizens of Arizona.

AZHealthInfo.orgAZHealthInfo.org points to MEDLINEplus (English points to MEDLINEplus (English and Spanish versions) from the National Library of and Spanish versions) from the National Library of Medicine for much of its consumer health Medicine for much of its consumer health information.information.

Partners around the state can submit content to Partners around the state can submit content to AZHealthInfoAZHealthInfo via a Web form. Local public via a Web form. Local public libraries and county health departments will libraries and county health departments will work together to supply and maintain local work together to supply and maintain local community information.community information.

It is being developed by the Arizona Turning Point It is being developed by the Arizona Turning Point Project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and administered by the Maricopa Foundation, and administered by the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, in collaboration County Department of Public Health, in collaboration with the Arizona Health Sciences Library of the with the Arizona Health Sciences Library of the University of Arizona. University of Arizona.

Other partners include the Arizona Local Other partners include the Arizona Local Health Officers’ Association, the Arizona Health Officers’ Association, the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, State Library, Archives and Public Records, Arizona Department of Health Services, Arizona Department of Health Services, and the Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona and the Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health. College of Public Health.

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Training workshops have been held in ALL areas of Training workshops have been held in ALL areas of Arizona to train county and tribal libraries and Arizona to train county and tribal libraries and health departments – workshop content is health departments – workshop content is customized according to the wishes of each library customized according to the wishes of each library and health department attending.and health department attending.