Public health education is an important part of national health systems that is intended to have a positive impact on the health behaviours of citizens and prevent health problems developing that require costly interactions with the acute health care system. In this paper we report findings from a twelve month ethnographic case study that collected observation, document/artefact and semi- structured interview data related to the information activities involved in community education work, specifically the targeted delivery of breast cancer information to relevant parts of a demographically defined community. We applied Leckie et al's (1996) model of the information behavior of professionals to highlight specific characteristics of different tasks and environments involved in professional breast cancer information delivery. The two main contributions of the paper are 1. an analysis of the way information grounds are both sought and leveraged in order to distribute information in breast cancer information delivery, and 2. the importance of (and understanding of) micro-information seeking in leveraging information grounds.

Item Type:	Refereed Conference Paper
Keywords:	information seeking, information grounds, information sharing, embodiment, community health services, community informatics
Research Division:	Information and Computing Sciences
Research Group:	Library and information studies
Research Field:	Human information interaction and retrieval
Objective Division:	Information and Communication Services
Objective Group:	Information systems, technologies and services
Objective Field:	Application software packages
UTAS Author:	Kelder, J-A (Dr Jo-Anne Kelder)
UTAS Author:	Lueg, C (Professor Christopher Lueg)
ID Code:	74678
Year Published:	2011
Deposited By:	Information and Communication Technology
Deposited On:	2011-12-09
Last Modified:	2021-07-19
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