Transcript The HealthPromis Bibliographic Database

HEALTH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
ONLINE
INFORMATION RESOURCES
Heidi Livingstone
Marta Calonge Contreras
Overview
Public Health electronic Library (PHeL) www.phel.gov.uk
HealthPromis http://healthpromis.hda-online.org.uk
Evidence Base www.hda-online.org.uk/evidence
Public Health Information Thesaurus www.phthesaurus.org.uk/
The Public Health electronic Library (PHeL)
www.phel.gov.uk
•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 31.3.05
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
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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
Main Menu
PHeL content
Search the PHeL Database
Policies
Provides access to a
wide range of cross
government policies
and initiatives
relevant to public
health
•Policy Library
Data and
Evidence
Provides data and
evidence via links to
other websites.
Includes evidence
briefings and
reviews.
•Research & Evidence
•Statistics
•Full text journals
•Bibliographic
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.
•Practice based
•Social action
•HIA
•HAZnet
•Health Action
•Health Equity Audit
Networking
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.
•Events
•Organisations
•Health Web Resources
•Networks
•New Developments
Search site
Advanced search
Search tips
Core options
About PHeL
Glossary
Contact us
Site map
Email alert
Email 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
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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
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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
HealthPromis / Library management system
Scanning, selection, indexing and data entry
Databases
Library
acquisitions
HealthPromis /
Workflows
Selection
Criteria
Indexing
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Cataloguing
Controls all records
Organises database
Built-in thesaurus
Cataloguing
Classification
Loans
Reports
Management stats
Current
awareness
Evidence
HDA
publications
User / public
interface
HealthPromis
Books &
Reports
Articles
System management
& control
User Interface
iLink
Search facility
Topic Databases
Hyperion
User customisation
Full text links
User feedback
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.
• 1400 terms
• Soon to be superseded by the NPHL
Content organised in topic databases
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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
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Develop search functionality to more advanced
capabilities (search history, combining searches)
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Integrated thesaurus searching (mapping of terms)
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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
[email protected]
Marta Calonge-Contreras
[email protected]