{"id":20386,"date":"2022-11-03T10:19:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T10:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=20386"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:22:46","slug":"consumer-health-minute-u-s-surgeon-general-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-u-s-surgeon-general-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Health Minute: U.S. Surgeon General Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our current U.S. Surgeon General has helped to produce several useful reports and tools regarding health and information. These resources could provide crucial information for internal staff and administration as well as for the clients, patrons, and communities you serve.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/surgeongeneral\/priorities\/workplace-well-being\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Surgeon General\u2019s Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>This 30-page report offers a foundation that workplaces can build upon. The report is centered on the worker\u2019s voice and equity and highlights a framework to support workplaces as engines of well-being. Each essential is grounded in two human needs, shared across industries and roles. Creating a plan to enact these practices can help strengthen the essentials of workplace well-being.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/health-misinformation-toolkit-english.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Toolkit for Addressing Health Misinformation<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThis health misinformation toolkit provides specific guidance and resources for health care providers, educators, librarians, faith leaders, and trusted community members to understand, identify, and stop the spread of health misinformation in their communities. The kit includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lessons<\/li>\n<li>Activities<\/li>\n<li>Infographics<\/li>\n<li>Checklist to evaluate information<\/li>\n<li>Tips to talk to friends, family, and your community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, take a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/surgeongeneral\/priorities\/health-misinformation\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confronting Health Misinformation<\/a> one page summary or the full advisory for more in depth information about this topic.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/surgeongeneral\/priorities\/youth-mental-health\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Protecting Youth Mental Health<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDon\u2019t be misled that this is a public health report. If your library or organization is open and provides services to youth, this report and the resources included, can be utilized to provide information and resources to help youth and their families and friends. The Surgeon General also addresses the specific needs and challenges of underrepresented youth. The advisory webpage includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a short Q&amp;A with the Surgeon General,<\/li>\n<li>how to take action according to your role,<\/li>\n<li>shareable tools,<\/li>\n<li>and additional resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/surgeongeneral\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Surgeon General\u2019s website<\/a> for more information and access to additional priorities and publications as you plan programs and services for the youth you serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our current U.S. Surgeon General has helped to produce several useful reports and tools regarding health and information. These resources could provide crucial information for internal staff and administration as well as for the clients, patrons, and communities you serve. Surgeon General\u2019s Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being This 30-page report offers a foundation&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-u-s-surgeon-general-resources\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,457,344,355,314,11],"tags":[119,254,176,124,375,300],"class_list":["post-20386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health","category-consumer-health-minute","category-health-misinformation","category-mental-health","category-news-from-nnlm-region-5","category-public-libraries","tag-consumer-health","tag-health-information","tag-mental-health","tag-public-library","tag-workplace-health","tag-youth-services"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20387,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386\/revisions\/20387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}