Health Issues in the Headlines: Learning to Read Between the Lines*

Often the first place your patrons will hear about health issues is in the media. Participants will learn about how health is reported in the news as well as how to evaluate the accuracy and validity of science and health stories in either the online or face-to-face class.

Resource URL: https://nnlm.gov/classes/headlines

Learning Objectives 

Participants will be able to:

1. describe the environment of medical reporting

2. gain a deeper level of knowledge of the origins of health news stories,

3. including the impact of celebrity illness

4. gain an understanding of the responsibilities of scientists in conducting and describing their research to the public

5. know how to critically evaluate health news stories and the research reports on which they are based

Agenda

Online Moodle for 4 CE credits:
Topic 1: Health news reporting and journalism
Topic 2: Health news reporting- librarians and scientist perspective
Topic 3: Celebrity News
Topic 4: Reading Between the Lines
Topic 5: Social media news

For Face to Face format for 1 hour CE credit:
Health Issues in the Headlines 1 hour
Introduction 5 minutes
Introduction to the Environment of Health Reporting 15 minutes
Impact of Celebrity Illness 10 minutes
Resources for Health News 15 minutes
Social media news 5 minutes
Wrap-Up and Evaluation 10 minutes 

For Face to Face format for 2 hours CE credit:
Introduction 10 minutes
Introduction to the Environment of Health Reporting 15 minutes
Impact of Celebrity Illness 10 minutes
Newspaper stories about health and medicine 20 minutes
Resources for Health News 20
Introduction to the Anatomy of a research article 10 minutes
Social media news 15 minutes
Library services/programs 10 minutes
Wrap-Up and Evaluation 10 minutes 

MLA CE Credits: 4