Consisting of 15 chapters by information science, library and information studies, and other specialists from the US, this volume examines the ways libraries and librarians increase people's health literacy and reduce health disparities in their communities, emphasizing the themes of health justice and access to health information. They address the roles of public libraries in healthy communities, including consumer health literacy, implementing food gardens to promote public and community health, opioid consumer health information literacy, and health and social justice in library and information science courses; consumer assessment of health information, including the information needs and seeking of young adults in relation to their health and well-being and public librarians' needs and challenges in meeting their users' needs, as well as a consumer health literacy workshop to meet those needs; overcoming barriers to health information access, including the use of universal design to ensure access for those with disabilities, as well as sex education and sexual health information access; serving disadvantaged populations like drug court participants, those in rural Appalachia in Tennessee, and performing musicians; and health information as a communal asset within LGBTQIA+ communities, including the use of queer and trans zines about health care and the health information practices of these communities. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
