Roles and Responsibilities of Libraries in Increasing Consumer Health Literacy and Reducing Health Disparities

Chapter 1. Introduction: Libraries and Librarians as Agents of Health Information Justice; Beth St. Jean, Paul T. Jaeger, Gagan Jindal and Yuting LiaoPublic Libraries/Healthy Communities

Chapter 2. Consumer Health Literacy, the National Library of Medicine, and the Public Library: Bridging the Gaps; Catherine Arnott Smith, Alla Keselman, Amanda J. Wilson and M. Nichelle Midon
Chapter 3. Growing Food at and through the Local Library: An Exploratory Study of an Emerging Role; Christine D'Arpa, Noah Lenstra and Ellen Rubenstein
Chapter 4. Opioid Consumer Health Information Literacies in Alabama's Public Libraries: An Exploratory Website Content Analysis; Bharat Mehra and Baheya S. Jaber
Chapter 5. Applying a Health Justice Framework to Examine Health and Social Justice in LIS Course Offerings; Emily Vardell and Deborah H. Charbonneau
Health Information Assessment
Chapter 6. Consumer Health Information Literacy and Information Behavior of Young Adults; Joan C. Bartlett
Chapter 7. Asking Good Questions: Developing Skilled Health Information Consumers; Heather Brodie Perry
Overcoming Barriers to Health Information Access
Chapter 8. Making Health Information Accessible for All: The Impact of Universal Design in Public Libraries; Gerd Berget
Chapter 9. Sexual Education is a Human Right: Information Inequities of K-12 Sexual Education and Librarians' Roles in Supporting Adolescents' Sexual Health Literacy; Karina Kletscher
Serving Disadvantaged Populations
Chapter 10. Public Libraries Expanding Health Literacy for Drug Court Participants; Anne M. Dannerbeck Janku, Jenny Bossaller, Denice Adkins and Rachel Thudium
Chapter 11. Increasing Health Literacy in Rural Appalachia Tennessee through Outreach, Communication, and Education: How Libraries Can Reduce Health Disparities in their Communities; Kelsey Leonard Grabeel
Chapter 12. The Health of a Musician: Documenting and Addressing Health Disparities among Performing Musicians; Loriene Roy
Health Information as a Communal Asset
Chapter 13. (Im)patient Narratives: Peer-to-Peer Health Information Transfer in the LGBTQ+ Community via Zines from the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP); Joyce M. Latham and Sarah Cooke
Chapter 14. "When it's Time to Come Together, We Come Together": Reconceptualizing Theories of Self-efficacy for Health Information Practices within LGBTQIA+ Communities; A. Nick Vera, Travis L. Wagner and Vanessa L. Kitzie
Conclusion
Chapter 15. Libraries and Librarians as Agents of Health Information Justice: Concluding Thoughts; Beth St. Jean, Gagan Jindal, Paul T. Jaeger, Yuting Liao and Beth Barnett