title: Enhancing the care navigation model: potential roles for health sciences librarians.
abstract: This study analyzed the overlap between roles and activities that health care navigators perform and competencies identified by the Medical Library Association’s (MLA’s) educational policy statement.Roles and activities that health care navigators perform were gleaned from published literature. Once common roles and activities that health care navigators perform were identified, MLA competencies were mapped against those roles and activities to identify areas of overlap. The greatest extent of correspondence occurred in patient empowerment and support. Further research is warranted to determine the extent to which health sciences librarians might assume responsibility for roles and activities that health care navigators perform
authors.affiliation: jeffrey.huber@uky.edu , Director and Professor, School of Library and Information Science, 323 Little Library Building; shapiro.rm@uky.edu , Public Health Librarian, Chandler Medical Center Library, William R. Willard Medical Education Building, Number 298; burkeheatherj@gmail.com , Graduate Assistant, 320 Little Library Building; aaron.palmer@uky.edu , 320 Little Library Building; University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506.
authors.forename: Jeffrey T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Huber
authors.affiliation: jeffrey.huber@uky.edu , Director and Professor, School of Library and Information Science, 323 Little Library Building; shapiro.rm@uky.edu , Public Health Librarian, Chandler Medical Center Library, William R. Willard Medical Education Building, Number 298; burkeheatherj@gmail.com , Graduate Assistant, 320 Little Library Building; aaron.palmer@uky.edu , 320 Little Library Building; University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506.
authors.forename: Robert M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.affiliation: jeffrey.huber@uky.edu , Director and Professor, School of Library and Information Science, 323 Little Library Building; shapiro.rm@uky.edu , Public Health Librarian, Chandler Medical Center Library, William R. Willard Medical Education Building, Number 298; burkeheatherj@gmail.com , Graduate Assistant, 320 Little Library Building; aaron.palmer@uky.edu , 320 Little Library Building; University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506.
authors.forename: Heather J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Burke
authors.affiliation: jeffrey.huber@uky.edu , Director and Professor, School of Library and Information Science, 323 Little Library Building; shapiro.rm@uky.edu , Public Health Librarian, Chandler Medical Center Library, William R. Willard Medical Education Building, Number 298; burkeheatherj@gmail.com , Graduate Assistant, 320 Little Library Building; aaron.palmer@uky.edu , 320 Little Library Building; University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506.
authors.forename: Aaron
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Palmer
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016245:Librarians; D062526:Patient Navigation; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards; D024382:Professional Role; D012952:Societies