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What is Informed Caring?
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Informed Caring is a portal to information resources for health professionals.This site is maintained by the Wisconsin AHEC Statewide Program Office to serve those working in local health departments, federally qualified community health centers, and others providing health services in rural and underserved communities in Wisconsin — particularly those without access to academic and hospital libraries. The site was originally created by Northern Wisconsin AHEC through an NLM (National Library of Medicine) grant (# 1 G08 LM008280-01 A 1) They are grateful for the past participation of Bellin Hospital, the Bellin College of Nursing and Bay Area Medical Center as well as the Northeastern Regional Office of the Division of Public Health, the Nicolet Federated Library System and the Northeastern Wisconsin Area Health Education Center (NEWAHEC). Funding for enhancement to the site was provided through a Wisconsin Partnership Fund grant from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Outreach and further development is supported in part with Federal Funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3503 with the University of Illinois at Chicago. Outreach to teaching sites is also supported in part through a contract with the National Health Service Corps (NHSC).
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Who can use informed caring?
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Anyone can use Informed Caring. Many of the resources are freely available. For those resources that are not freely available, please see accessing materials. -
How is Informed Caring organized?
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Informed Caring is organized into 4 main blocks.- Block 1 includes our navigation bar – home, about us, contact us, popular resources, resources by topic, feedback, search, and user forum. These topics will be on every page within Informed Caring
- Block 2 includes our three main audiences:
- Population and Public Health Professionals/ Preventive Resources
- Healthcare Professionals/ Clinical Resources
- Patient/ Education Resources
- Block 3 is our Library Services page to help users find information on FAQs, borrowing/accessing materials, local libraries, trainings, and reference help
- Block 4 is cross-referenced within in audiences and includes health topics, Wisconsin resources, health literacy, teaching/mentoring resources, and tools/videos/technology
Within the above blocks, the topics are arranged mostly in alphabetical order. These links and websites have been evaluated and are up-to-date and reliable.