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Friday, August 29, 2008

Wellness Information Zone

From an email received:

"Good Afternoon!

Every Houston Public Neighborhood Library, Central and Express Library is participating in a pilot project with the Humana Foundation. During the next five (5) weeks, you are being asked to intensively promote and use the following website: http://www.wellzone.org. Promotional materials that include posters, bookmarks, and tent cards are being sent to every location.



The Humana Wellness Zone is a pilot project designed to assist the 90 million Americans who have trouble accessing, understanding and using health information due to low literacy levels. The project’s goal is to provide Houston Public Library with a better tool for offering better basic health information in everyday language to the public. It is a wonderful opportunity to offer the public at large an easy to use additional resource for their health information needs. A focus group of Houston Public Library staff met with Humana Foundation and had the opportunity to influence, shape and improve the website by making recommendations about content and access points. Their comments and suggestions about how to improve the website were insightful and appreciated. Some of those changes have not been implemented. The assessment from the focus group determined the evaluation of the website required an expansion of the test user base. This is now a system wide pilot project.



The Humana Foundation is in the process of adding a survey to its website. We are asking all staff to go to the website; review it; then complete the brief survey. Please ask your coworkers and customers to go the website and complete the survey. In order for the site to be an effective tool, we need as much input as possible. Once again, thank you for your participation."

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Thanks,

Eric

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