市民の健康支援という観点から, 健康医療情報を入手し, 適切な治療を受けられる環境を身近な地域に作るためには, 共通の目的を持つ専門家の組織を超えた知識共同体を構築することの有効性を, 図書館情報学と国立がん研究センターの研究者が共同で二種類の知識共同体の構築を通じて提示した。一つ目の地域の医療機関・行政機関・公共図書館の担当者の知識共同体は, 三者が参加するシンポジウムを全国で開き交流の機会を持つことで実現し, もう一つの知識共同体は, 健康医療情報を市民に届ける全国の公共図書館, 患者図書室の担当者が選書情報をwebで共有できるしくみを作って実現した。両者は現在機能して市民の健康支援に貢献しつつある。
To support citizens' health, constructing knowledge communities -- made up of professionals from different organizations in local communities, who share the same objectives -- should effectively develop an environment in which citizens can acquire quality health information and obtain adequate treatment. To demonstrate this, researchers collaborated to construct two kinds of knowledge communities. One consists of members from medical institutions, local authorities, and public libraries. To build this community, symposiums were organized in various parts of Japan, creating opportunities for people from different institutions to meet and to achieve the same objectives in their respective local areas. The second community consists of librarians from public libraries and patient libraries across Japan. A web-based system was created for exchanging information about books on health and medicine so that librarians could refer to this information to support citizens' health in their areas.

研究種目 : 基盤研究 (B) (一般)
研究期間 : 2015～2018
課題番号 : 15H02788
研究分野 : 図書館情報学、エスノメソドロジー、知識社会学