PlaneTalk is our monthly newsletter, packed with health "news you can use".
Each issue includes: a current health Q and A section; plus more in-depth information on timely health issues; and a section for COVID updates of particular relevance to the Bay Area; and collection updates on new links in our online resource guides. Occasionally we publish special issues of PlaneTalk devoted to single issues.
You'll find the current issue of PlaneTalk along with archived past issues here.
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Recently PlaneTree Health Library received an award from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine's Region 5 in support of our video project that aims to improve cross-cultural healthcare communication between patients and providers by amplifying voices from our county's diverse communities.
Get together with your local nonprofit organization colleagues to talk about marketing and other items of concern.
Next Meeting:
Wednesday, March 30th at 10:00am
Contact: jthill@planetree-sv.org to receive the Zoom link
It has been harder to connect these days, so a local group has been created to share information about local resources, spread the word and market each other’s efforts to the people in our organizations, and encourage partnership in our communities. Non-profits, government, businesses, and educators in the Silicon Valley will meet on Zoom once a month and share what they do and in turn build an online community. There have already been several connections and partnerships created because of this group. You never know what kinds of opportunities will happen when you are networking. After each meeting, each agency in attendance can email fliers or information that they want distributed to the group. An email with all those shared documents will be sent to all group members.
We are constantly updating the content in our online collections. New sections and items are flagged with this icon:
Our guide to Evaluating Health Information (spotting fake health news, spin in reporting, and understanding research reports):
See our series of three collections on Later Life concerns:
Our Emergency Health Information resource guides:
About PlaneTree Health Library:
PlaneTree Health Library guides the public to accurate, trustworthy, and free health and medical information. We believe that informed patients are able to partner more effectively with their health care professionals. Being informed and aware also empowers people to take better care of their own health, the health of their loved ones, and the health of their communities.
Planetree Health Library is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and is not affiliated with any health care company. The information included on our webpages has strictly noncommercial content.
Founded in 1987, PlaneTree Health Library has been serving the South Bay communities for over 30 years. (For more information about our history, see here.)
The links on our webpages are chosen by our librarians from the most trustworthy not-for-profit sources, curated to provide accurate and appropriate patient and consumer health information. Our online resources have a special focus on the health care concerns of people in our local communities (Santa Clara County / Silicon Valley, California) but many are universally relevant. All of the information on our websites can be accessed free of charge.
Disparities in health care, and the history of systemic racism in the United States, are among the greatest dangers to our communities and to our own health. PlaneTree Health Library has always worked to end those inequities by increasing access to health information for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, and marginalized communities and individuals. In these times of protest that Black Lives absolutely do Matter, PHL reaffirms our commitment towards health care equity and inclusion.
We appreciate your trust in us as an independent resource for reliable health and medical information. Planetree Health Library has never charged the public for our services; instead they are funded by community members who value the information it makes available. Please help support our work by making a tax-deductible donation and/or by participating in the AmazonSmile program.
The text on this page is copyright Lise M. Dyckman and PlaneTree Health Library, licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Linked contents are the responsibility of their creators or copyright holders.