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HELP- the Heath Education Library for People
HELP - the Health Education Library for People, India's first Consumer Health Education Resource Center, and one of the world's largest consumer health libraries, as determined by the Medical Library Association, USA, aims to empower people by providing them with the information they need to promote their health, and prevent and treat medical problems in the family in partnership with their doctor. We are a registered charitable trust and a non-profit organisation.
We offer the following facilities:
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1. Air conditioned reading rooms, with a seating capacity for 20-25 persons
2. An up-to-date collection of over 5000 consumer health books, 10000 pamphlets, and many magazines and newsletters
3. Audiovisual educational media, including over 100 video tapes. Videos can be viewed in privacy in the library.
4. Computer software, including over 30 CD-ROMs on all health and medical topics
5. Photocopying facilities, at Re 1 per page
HELP has become a prototype of the modern digital library. Our library catalog is computerised and is now available on the Internet at http://www.healthlibrary.com, so that readers can "browse" through our catalog from home! We have many full-text health books and magazines in our Reading Room on the Web, so that people can read them free! This allows us to extend our outreach services, by providing consumer health information to internet users from all over the world!
We are a public library - everyone is welcome! Entry to HELP is free!
We are open Monday through Saturday, from 10 am to 7 pm. For those unable to come personally to the library, we also answer questions by post or e-mail. This is an innovative service called MISS-HELP (Medical Information Search Services from HELP) which allows us to provide medical information to users from all over the world.
Dr. Malpani was recently invited to London to present a paper on "Promoting Patient Choice - An International Perspective" at the King's Fund Conference held in UK in October 1997.
At present, all our materials are in English, and we plan to translate our educational materials into regional languages in the future.
What are our Goals ?
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1.To create and provide access to a reliable and up-to-date collection of consumer health materials, so that people can become better informed about their own health. We believe that the best prescription is knowledge!
2.To encourage a healthy doctor-patient relationship, since the best patient is a well-informed one!
3. To provide resources which doctors can adapt to their own practise, to use for educating their patients
4.To be a useful resource for writers and journalists, and thus improve the quality and accuracy of reporting for medical topics in the lay press
5.To act as a stimulus for patients with a particular disease to get together and form self-help support groups, to help each other cope with their disease
6. To prevent health fraud and quackery by educating the consumer about health and illness
7. Ultimately, we hope that well informed patients will demand the best treatment available internationally - and that this will act as an incentive for doctors to update their skills, and for hospitals to improve their facilities.
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