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HISI Conference , 19 November 2008

Sharing public health information

Kevin P Balanda, IPH

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Institute of Public Health in Ireland

All-Ireland body: North-South co-operation Inequalities in health

Broad view of health and its determinants

Three work strands: Capacity building Policy support Information and intelligence -

INIsPHO

2008/2009 – 10 year anniversary

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Sharing public health information

How do we ensure that • Policy makers / clinicians / practitioners

/ others get information when they need it?

• The experience of policy makers and practitioners is considered?

• People also get the other contextual information they need?

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AIeHL – how it works

The AIeHL is a network of interoperable websites

All member websites contribute relevant resources

No repository, only a central metadata cache

XML feeds to the metadata cache

AIeHL website searches that central metadata cache

To retrieve a resource, visitor is directed to the member website that contributed it

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AIeHL - management

AIeHL Advisory Group

AIeHL Members Working Group

Working towards meeting standards of the Health Sciences Libraries Group (HSLG)

Formal participation in development of a number of international encoding schemes

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Some current members

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Addressing technical issues

Agreed core metadata standards:• “Subject” - PHL mapped to SNOMED • “Type” - PHRTES

Agreed tagging of resources

Modification to member websites

XML feeds

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Addressing organisational issues

More widely disseminate their resources

Places their resources in a broader context

Maintain “ownership” and “control”

Increases resources available to their visitors

It increases traffic to all member websites

Democratic” - agreed rules / all benefit equally/ different levels of participation

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Challenges ahead

Opportunity to develop a rational approach: content / quality / library standards

Management of growth (new members / use in two new research centres)

Promoting awareness of the library

Resources / funding

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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