{"id":22478,"date":"2026-10-05T16:53:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=22478"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:53:58","slug":"consumer-health-minute-health-information-resources-for-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-health-information-resources-for-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Health Minute: Health Information Resources for the Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve recently updated our popular NNLM guide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/resources\/resources-for-public-libraries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resources for Public Libraries<\/a>. The information here isn\u2019t just for public libraries but for anyone who is providing the public with health information.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll find information and links to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>health information resources,<\/li>\n<li>programming,<\/li>\n<li>health insurance,<\/li>\n<li>mental and behavioral health resources,<\/li>\n<li>and more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Consider ways to incorporate these resources into programs and services that best benefit your communities.<\/p>\n<h3>Health Literacy Month<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/odphp.health.gov\/our-work\/national-health-initiatives\/health-literacy\/celebrate-health-literacy-month-resources-odphp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October is Health Literacy Month<\/a> and NNLM Region 5 is highlighting this important topic with two guest posts by those serving patients and the public to help increase health literacy to individuals. We hope you enjoy learning about their work and hear the passion in their voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve recently updated our popular NNLM guide, Resources for Public Libraries. The information here isn\u2019t just for public libraries but for anyone who is providing the public with health information. You\u2019ll find information and links to: health information resources, programming, health insurance, mental and behavioral health resources, and more! Consider ways to incorporate these resources&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-health-information-resources-for-the-public\/\">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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[457,10,11],"tags":[119,410,234,155],"class_list":["post-22478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health-minute","category-health-observances","category-public-libraries","tag-consumer-health","tag-health-literacy-month","tag-libraries","tag-public-libraries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22478","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=22478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22538,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22478\/revisions\/22538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}