Long-term outcomes of the inverted exclamation markVIVA! Peer Tutor Project: use of MedlinePlus by former peer tutors and the adults they taught.

摘要

In 2001, Biblioteca Las Ame?ricas (BLA), a school library in the South Texas Independent School District (STISD), began the Vital Information for a Virtual Age (?VIVA!) Peer Tutor Project, in which high school students promote MedlinePlus in their high schools and communities. MedlinePlus and its companion site, MedlinePlus en espan? ol, are consumer health information websites maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) [1]. Approximately 80% of the STISD student population is Hispanic [2]. The district serves counties that are medically underserved [3] and have poverty rates that are double the national average [4].