Title: HEALTH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ONLINE INFORMATION RESOURCES Heidi Livingstone Marta Calonge Contreras
1HEALTH DEVELOPMENT AGENCYONLINE INFORMATION
RESOURCESHeidi LivingstoneMarta Calonge
Contreras
2Overview
- Public Health electronic Library (PHeL)
www.phel.gov.uk - HealthPromis http//healthpromis.hda-online.org.u
k - Evidence Base www.hda-online.org.uk/evidence
- Public Health Information Thesaurus
www.phthesaurus.org.uk/
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4The Public Health electronic Library
(PHeL)www.phel.gov.uk
- What is PHeL?
- Who uses PHeL?
- What is in PHeL?
- The future
5What is PHeL?
- PHeL is a gateway
- - which aims to provide knowledge and know how to
public health professionals to promote health,
prevent disease and reduce health inequalities. - PHeL is part of the National electronic Library
for Health - - it is one of a number of specialist libraries
- PHeL is managed by the HDA (after 31.3.05 by
NICE) on behalf of the Department of Health -
6What PHeL is
- A database driven website holding approximately
1,500 records - including policies, evidence, case studies,
events, web resources, organisations and
networks.
What is PHeL is not
- A bibliographic database for this we direct
users to HealthPromis
7Who uses PHeL?
- Receives over 15,000 visits a month
- Primary audience - public health professionals
- Secondary audience the public
8Data Entry and Indexing
- Scan for potential reference material
- Current awareness bulletins
- Internet searches
- Personal recommendations
- Submission via the website
- Apply selection criteria
- Indexed using HDAs Public Health Information
Thesaurus - Records are constantly added, updated
- or deleted
9Main Menu
PHeL content
Search the PHeL Database
Policies
Data and Evidence
Knowledge into Action
Networking
Search siteAdvanced searchSearch tips Core
optionsAbout PHeLGlossaryContact usSite map
Provides access to a wide range of cross
government policies and initiatives relevant to
public health
Provides access to a range of guidance, toolkits
and practice based information. Provides support
to local practitioners to deliver policies and
initiatives rolled out by the government over the
last few years.
Provides access to information relating to public
health organisations, events and new
developments. Focuses on the development of
electronic communities and of public health
across all sectors.
Provides data and evidence via links to other
websites. Includes evidence briefings and reviews.
Email alertEmail archiveSubmissionsEnquiries
- Research Evidence
- Statistics
- Full text journals
- Bibliographic
- Events
- Organisations
- Health Web Resources
- Networks
- New Developments
- Practice based
- Social action
- HIA
- HAZnet
- Health Action
- Health Equity Audit
10How will PHeL develop in the future?
- Develop the search function
- Work towards interoperability with HealthPromis
and the HDAs Evidence Base - Semantically already indexed the same
- Technologically
11How will PHeL develop in the future?
- Be interoperable with NeLH and the other
specialist libraries (by moving to the same
technical structure) - Work towards interoperability with the Public
Health Observatories and other key information
providers - Semantically by using the new National Public
Health Language for indexing - Technologically
- Continue to develop content partners
12- Welcome to the
- Public Health electronic Library
-
13HealthPromis
14What is HealthPromis?
- The HDAs library catalogue.
- Developed into a public health bibliographic
database to support the HDAs work programme. - focuses on evidence-based public health, health
promotion and health inequalities - Holds over 60,000 references
- including official publications, reports,
surveys, books, journal articles and links to
e-journals
15Who uses HealthPromis?
- Receives over 4,000 visits a month
- HDA staff
- Health professionals
- Policy makers
- Academic e.g. CRD and EPPI Centre for
systematic reviews - Researchers
16Technical architecture
- Library management system Sirsis Unicorn
- Workflows - provides back office functionality
- iLink OPAC advanced, customisable online public
access catalogue - Hyperion Digital Media Archive
17iLink Functionality
- Advanced search interface
- User customisation via personal log-in
- Save/ e-mail search results
- Create own bibliographies
- Recommend items for inclusions
- Full-text links
- Electronic archive
18HealthPromis / Library management system
System management control
User / public interface
Scanning, selection, indexing and data entry
Library acquisitions
HealthPromis /WorkflowsControls all
recordsOrganises database Built-in
thesaurus Cataloguing Classification Loans Repor
ts Management stats
Databases
HealthPromis User Interface iLink Search
facility Topic Databases Hyperion User
customisation Full text links User feedback
Books Reports
IndexingCataloguing
SelectionCriteria
Articles
Current awareness
Evidence
HDA publications
19The Public Health Information Thesaurus
- Used to index PHeL and HealthPromis
- Originally developed from the European
Multilingual Thesaurus on Health Promotion. - Focuses on public health, but also education,
environment, business and management, transport,
social and cultural issues, etc. - 1400 terms
- Soon to be superseded by the NPHL
20Content organised in topic databases
- Accidental Injury
- HDA Evidence Base
- HDA Publications Database
- Mens Health
- Physical Activity
- Sexual Health
- Smoking
- Teenage Pregnancy
- Digital Archive
21Evidence Base Database
- HDA Evidence Briefings
- Supporting documents systematic reviews and
primary studies. - Provide state of the evidence, identify gaps in
research, etc. - Methodology and toolkits underpinning the HDAs
Evidence Briefings
22Electronic Archive
- Allows large number of full text publications
(PDFs) and other digital media to be held - Provides in content search facility and browsing
of archive hierarchy for publications
23Welcome to The HealthPromis Database
24The Future
- Develop search functionality to more advanced
capabilities (search history, combining searches) - Integrated thesaurus searching (mapping of terms)
- Cross-searching with other databases such as
ZETOC (British Library), PubMed (Medline) using
Z39.50 Protocol.
25The NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH LANGUAGE(NPHL)
- Will soon supersede the HDA Public Health
Thesaurus. - A joint initiative between the HDA and the
ERPHOs. - Integrates the HDAs Thesaurus, PHITS and terms
from the DH Taxonomy and Government Category
List. - To be launched in a Public Health and
Interoperability seminar on the 20 of December
2004 in London people interested in Public
Health and Interoperability welcome.
26For further information on PHeL, HealthPromis or
the NPHL contact
- Heidi Livingstone
- Heidi.livingstone_at_hda-online.org.uk
- Marta Calonge-Contreras
- Marta.calonge-contreras_at_hda-online.org.uk