HEALTH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

ONLINE INFORMATION RESOURCES

Heidi LivingstoneMarta 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

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 siteAdvanced searchSearch tips

Core optionsAbout PHeLGlossaryContact usSite 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 andevidence via links toother websites.Includes evidence briefings and reviews.

Search the PHeL Database

•Practice based•Social action•HIA•HAZnet•Health Action•Health Equity Audit

PHeL content

Email alertEmail archiveSubmissionsEnquiries

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/ e-mail 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

SelectionCriteria

Indexing&

Cataloguing

HealthPromis /Workflows

Controls all recordsOrganises databaseBuilt-in thesaurus

Cataloguing ClassificationLoansReportsManagement stats

HealthPromis

User InterfaceiLinkSearch facility

Topic Databases

HyperionUser customisationFull text links

User feedback

Scanning, selection, indexing and data entrySystem management & control

User / public interface

Libraryacquisitions

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• 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

Heidi.livingstone@hda-online.org.uk

Marta Calonge-Contreras

Marta.calonge-contreras@hda-online.org.uk