Exploring Health Information Use by Older Australians within Everyday Life
Author(s)
Yates, Christine
Stoodley, Ian
Partridge, Helen
Bruce, Christine
Cooper, Helen
Day, Gary
Edwards, Sylvia L.
Issue Date
2012
Keyword(s)
Information literacy
Abstract
Exploring information use within everyday or community contexts is
a recent area of interest for information literacy research endeavors.
Within this domain, health information literacy (HIL) has emerged
as a focus of interest due to identified synergies between information
use and health status. However, while HIL has been acknowledged
as a core ingredient that can assist people to take responsibility for
managing and improving their own health, limited research has explored
how HIL is experienced in everyday community life. This
article will present the findings of ongoing research undertaken
using phenomenography to explore how HIL is experienced among
older Australians within everyday contexts. It will also discuss how
these findings may be used to inform policy formulation in health
communication and as an evidence base for the design and delivery
of consumer health information resources and services.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/31894
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2012.0004
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2012 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
Library Trends 60 (3) Winter 2012: Information Literacy Beyond the Academy, Part II: Organizational Issues, Theoretical Perspectives, and Practical Initiatives. Edited by John Crawford.
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