What is it about?
Your Health® Radio is a weekly one-hour radio show about consumer health produced by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Family Medicine. It provides practical, health-related news and information to listeners in an easy to understand style. Hosted by a family medicine physician faculty member and co-hosted by other health professionals, it airs on a local radio station. Since 2009, Health Sciences librarians have collaborated on the show, bringing their expertise in information discovery and organization, consumer health, and health literacy to this consumer health endeavor. In the process, the librarians and libraries have also benefitted.
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Why is it important?
The radio show is hosted by a practicing Family Medicine Doctor. It provides practical, health-related news and information to listeners in an easy to understand style. Librarians created the show's blog and use it to provide links to trusted health information about every topic discussed on the radio show.
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This page is a summary of: A Library and a Radio Show: The Story of a Successful Partnership at 10 Years and Counting, Journal of Library Administration, April 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01930826.2019.1593713.
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Your Health® Radio
YOUR HEALTH® is a weekly one-hour radio talk show on patient health produced by the University of North Carolina Department of Family Medicine. The show is co-hosted by Dr. Adam Goldstein and Dr. Cristy Page, nationally known physicians, teachers and researchers. YOUR HEALTH® provides practical health-related news and information to its listeners in a manner that is comforting, convenient and easy to understand. The show features health experts, patient experiences and health topics in the news.
Carolina Digital Repository: Your Health® Radio
Articles, presentations, posters about Your Health® Radio
Behind the Sciences with Your Health® Radio
Go behind the scenes to learn to learn more about how librarians from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Health Sciences Library collaborate with YOUR HEALTH®. Take a look at some of their recommended resources for consumers, health care providers, and other librarians!
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