HEALTH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ONLINE INFORMATION RESOURCES Heidi Livingstone Marta Calonge Contreras

Overview Public Health electronic Library (PHeL) HealthPromis Evidence Base Public Health Information Thesaurus

The Public Health electronic Library (PHeL) What is PHeL? Who uses PHeL? What is in PHeL? The future

What 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 by NICE) on behalf of the Department of Health

What 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

Who uses PHeL? Receives over 15,000 visits a month Primary audience - public health professionals Secondary audience – the public

Data Entry and Indexing Scan for potential reference material  Current awareness bulletins  Internet searches  Personal recommendations  Submission via the website Apply selection criteria Indexed using HDA’s Public Health Information Thesaurus Records are constantly added, updated or deleted

Policies Policy Library Provides access to a wide range of cross government policies and initiatives relevant to public health Main Menu Networking Search site Advanced search Search tips Core options About PHeL Glossary Contact us Site map Research & Evidence Statistics Full text journals Bibliographic Data and Evidence Events Organisations Health Web Resources Networks New Developments Knowledge into Action 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. Search the PHeL Database Practice based Social action HIA HAZnet Health Action Health Equity Audit PHeL content alert archive Submissions Enquiries

How will PHeL develop in the future? Develop the search function Work towards interoperability with HealthPromis and the HDA’s Evidence Base: Semantically – already indexed the same Technologically

How 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

Welcome to the Public Health electronic Library

HealthPromis

What is HealthPromis? The HDA’s library catalogue. Developed into a public health bibliographic database to support the HDA’s 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

Who 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

Technical architecture Library management system – Sirsi’s Unicorn Workflows - provides back office functionality iLink OPAC – advanced, customisable online public access catalogue Hyperion – Digital Media Archive

iLink Functionality Advanced search interface User customisation via personal log-in Save/ search results Create own bibliographies Recommend items for inclusions Full-text links Electronic archive

HealthPromis / Library management system Databases Books & Reports Articles Current awareness Evidence HDA publications Selection Criteria Indexing & Cataloguing HealthPromis / Workflows Controls all records Organises database Built-in thesaurus Cataloguing Classification Loans Reports Management stats HealthPromis User Interface iLink Search facility Topic Databases Hyperion User customisation Full text links User feedback Scanning, selection, indexing and data entry System management & control User / public interface Library acquisitions

The 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 terms Soon to be superseded by the NPHL

Content organised in topic databases Accidental Injury HDA Evidence Base HDA Publications Database Men’s Health Physical Activity Sexual Health Smoking Teenage Pregnancy Digital Archive

Evidence 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 HDA’s Evidence Briefings

Electronic 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

Welcome to The HealthPromis Database

The 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.

The NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH LANGUAGE (NPHL) Will soon supersede the HDA Public Health Thesaurus. A joint initiative between the HDA and the ERPHO’s. Integrates the HDA’s 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.

For further information on PHeL, HealthPromis or the NPHL contact: Heidi Livingstone Marta Calonge-Contreras