1. Information Literacy, Health Information
Literacy, Health Literacy, -What are they
about?
Sangeeta Narang
Librarian Grade-I
All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
New Delhi
India

2. Overview
• Introduction- Information landscape
• Definition-Information Literacy (IL), Health
Information
Literacy (HIL) & Health Literacy (HL)
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Literature Review (Refer paper in Library Herald)
Observation
Conclusion
Outcome
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3. Information Landscape
Study on IL, HIL and HL is important due to -
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Information Overload
Technological challenges- aural, text, graphic
Complexity of information sources
Means of dissemination-social media
Advanced search techniques and methods
Highly interactive devices - smart phones, e-book
readers
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4. Information Literacy is the ability to
recognize when information is needed and
have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use
effectively the needed information (ALA 1989)
Locate
Evaluate
Use
Source: http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency
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5. Health Information Literacy is the set of abilities needed
to recognize health information need; identify likely
information sources and use them to retrieve relevant
information; assess the quality of the information and its
applicability to specific situation; and analyze,
understand, and use the information to make good health
decisions
Health
Information
Literacy
Health
Information
Literacy
Source: https://www.mlanet.org/resources/healthlit/define.html
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6. Health Literacy is the degree to which
individuals have the capacity to obtain,
process, and understand basic health
information and services needed to
make appropriate health decisions
Obtain
Process
Understand
Apply
Source: http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/hlthlit.html
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7. Literature search on Google Scholar and
PubMed was conducted to find relevant papers
on IL, HIL and HL especially those related to
India were studied
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8. It was found that there are several studies on
IL,HIL and HL from developed countries and
few studies are available from India
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9. Conclusion
• Librarians play an important role in designing and
teaching IL,HIL and HL based courses
• There is a need to conduct IL, HIL and HL based
assessment study at various levels to improve the
competency level of people in our country
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10. Outcome
Such studies will help to identify areas where
improvement in practices would be beneficial and will
enable to set out a course of action to improve the
competency level of our people
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11. Thank You