Beth St. Jean, Gagan Jindal, Yuting Liao, Paul T. Jaeger

Gebundenes Buch

Roles and Responsibilities of Libraries in Increasing Consumer Health Literacy and Reducing Health Disparities

Beschreibung

This volume brings together librarians, LIS students, educators, and researchers, to discuss the many ways that information professionals and libraries serve as agents of securing health information justice.

Autor

Beth St. Jean is an Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies, Associate Director of the Information Policy & Access Center (iPAC), and an affiliate faculty member of the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy, at the University of Maryland, USA. Gagan Jindal is a Qualitative User Experience Researcher at Facebook, Inc. She recently received her PhD from the University of Maryland College of Information Studies. Yuting Liao is a PhD candidate in the University of Maryland College of Information Studies. Paul T. Jaeger is Professor and Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the College of Information Studies and Co-Director of iPAC at the University of Maryland, USA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781839093418
• ISBN-10: 1839093412
• Artikelnr.: 60314795