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Poster Abstract
Partnering for a Healthier Community
Janice May, Hands on Health - SC Project Coordinator; Nancy McKeehan, Project Manager; and Thomas G. Basler, PhD, Project Director, Library, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
Purpose: This poster illustrates efforts in South Carolina to combine the expertise, effort, and educational products of multiple projects focusing on improving the health and well-being of the state's citizens. Collaboration among library-, university-, community-, and faith-based projects provides opportunities to accomplish more than we could separately.
Setting/Participants and Resources: South Carolina is a rural state with many challenges for health care providers and educators. The Library of the Medical University of South Carolina has expanded its outreach endeavors, primarily through grant-funded projects and partnerships.
Brief Description: The MUSC Library received funding from the Duke Endowment to develop a consumer health web site to promote healthier citizens and healthier communities in our state. We have targeted diseases and issues, which most seriously affect South Carolina's underserved and vulnerable citizens, especially minority and rural populations. As this project, Hands on Health-South Carolina, got underway with our initial partners, we quickly began identifying other community-oriented health projects that complemented ours. Contacts were made, meetings held, and collaborative work has begun. Programs share information, link to each other's sites and conduct outreach programs as teams. The ultimate goal is to leverage the activities, efforts, and funding of many projects to expand the impact and reach of each.
Results and Outcome: Our expected outcomes are to increase individual/community health awareness and knowledge; to encourage people to modify their lifestyles based on that knowledge; and to improve individual/community health in South Carolina while minimizing health disparities.
Evaluation Method: We will measure the impact of multi-project collaboration by testing citizen awareness and health knowledge at community health fairs, visits to clinics, schools, libraries, and other community gathering places. Successful competition for continued or new funding for collaborative projects will also be an important measure of success.
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Last modified: Tuesday, 15 October 2002
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