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Delivering information literacy within a global health care degree: reflections from a health information specialist
Author(s) -
Fredriksson Marketta
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
health information and libraries journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.779
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1471-1842
pISSN - 1471-1834
DOI - 10.1111/hir.12238
Subject(s) - information literacy , health literacy , health information , health care , degree (music) , medicine , library science , computer science , political science , law , physics , acoustics
Higher education institutions ( HEI s) have a growing interest in establishing International joint degree programmes in developing countries. A Master′s degree in global health care is an international joint degree programme run by two Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences and one Kenyan University. To provide students and staff members who live in Finland with an authentic experience of the circumstances in the developing countries, part of the programme involves delivering a two‐week intensive course in Kenya. Health library services and information literacy training have a significant presence during this intensive course. In this paper, guest writer Marketta Fredriksson describes and reflects on the involvement of the health care library team in the development and implementation of this degree and delivery of the intensive course in Kenya. H.S.