ReviewJournal of community health2019
Public Libraries: A Community-Level Resource to Advance Population Health.
Review in Journal of community health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.
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39 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Uneven access to essential services and amenities: Geographic disparities in 'third place' availability across the United States from 2010 to 2021.Health & place · 2025Article
- Partnering with rural libraries to increase telehealth utilization in New York state.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2025Article
- Social context for health literacy: Public libraries as health hubs.Public health · 2025Article
- "Bupe by the book": A study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial of library-facilitated telehealth to increase buprenorphine treatment among individuals experiencing homelessness.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
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- Systematic librarian-led zip code analysis to target underserved communities.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2025Article
- Enhancing accessibility and equity in utilization of virtual care: Virtual Care @ Your Library pilot project.BMC health services research · 2025Observational
- Assessing the Readiness of Rural Public Librarians to Implement Public Health Programs.Journal of community health · 2025Article
- Do Academic Libraries Contribute to Students' and Communities' Wellbeing?: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Community Mental Health Workers: Their Workplaces, Roles, and Impact.Community mental health journal · 2024Review
- A community engagement program to improve awareness for credible online health information.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2024Article
- Community Asset Density and Past-Year Mental Health Symptoms Among Youths.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Nurturing care assets for food security: a community asset mapping approach.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2024Article
- Public libraries to promote public health and wellbeing: a cross-sectional study of community-dwelling adults.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Support in digital health skill development for vulnerable groups in a public library setting: perspectives of trainers.Frontiers in digital health · 2024Article
- Public library lending programs increase radon testing in rural communities.Library & information science research · 2024Article
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Abstract
Policy makers and public health practitioners rarely consider public libraries to be part of the health system, even though they possess several characteristics that suggest unrealized potential to advance population health. This scoping review uses an adapted social determinants framework to categorize current health-related work conducted by public libraries in the United States and to discuss libraries' potential as 'meso-level' community resources to improve population health. Our discussion of libraries contributes to scholarship on place-based health disparities, by emphasizing the potential impact of institutions that are modifiable through social policy-e.g., parks, community centers, schools-and which have a conceptually clear or empirically documented relationship to health.
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