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Community Health Projects: Websites on citizen-based activism projects in community health.

The Columbus (Ohio) Black Womens Health Project (CBWHP): CBWHP was founded in 1993 as a chapter of the National Black Womens Health Project (NBWHP) to raise awareness and understanding amongst African American women about the relationship between their physical, mental, and economic health.

NLM Funded Projects Enhance Public Access to Health Information: An example of a noteworthy community health project is the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) Libraries Health Information @ Preuss project that aims to teach disadvantaged middle school students how to find health information. Find the online health resource tool at http://health.ucsd.edu/hip.

Toward Context-Centered Methods for Evaluating Public Library Networked Community Information Initiatives: Findings from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded project undertaken by Joan C. Durrance, Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information (SI), and Karen E. Pettigrew, Assistant Professor at The Information School, University of Washington, that was published in First Monday [volume 6, number 4 (April 2001)], a prestigious online journal.

Nyirrpi Grandmothers' Women's Health Program: This website presents community initiatives taken by grandmothers in Aboriginal communities to work with health professionals in Australia to alleviate their health problems. The project has involved grandmothers in the community work with health professionals to create awareness and share their knowledge about women’s health business .Attention has been effectively drawn via such collaborations towards community health problems such as poor nutrition, sugar diabetes, cancer and sexually transmitted diseases that are prevalent in Aboriginal communities.

 

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