Key Information Processing Partners for Progress in Health Literacy and Practice in Karnataka
Pramila M C,Ananthnag K,Dasharath B,Yacob Johnson
Journal of Information Organization, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2024.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6025/jio/2024/14/4/163-168
Link: https://www.dline.info/jio/fulltext/v14n4/jiov14n4_1.pdf
Abstract:
Medical librarianship comprises working on general literacy, informational literacy,
and patient education initiatives. These will make librarians and community libraries
excellent at gathering resources to further and update health literacy research
and practice. The role of the National Medical Library is to develop resources, programs,
and collaborative partnerships with medical librarians to serve the health
information needs of the community. This article gives an overview of Karnatakaâ€™s
government health initiatives and literacy efforts. The study identifies different
schemes of Karnataka health projects through programs in diverse communities,
focusing on service to the special community populations that may suffer from
health disparities in Karnataka. The study extends to describing the â€˜librariesâ€™ and
librariansâ€™ responses to continuously evolving contexts and mediums and meeting
community requirements. It also observed the enablers of success, limitations
of the existing data, and directions for future research.