[HealthLiteracy 2398] Re: Wednesday Question: What do you want in yourtoolkit?Hebert, Pam NCP Pam.Hebert at va.govThu Oct 30 07:35:40 EDT 2008
While we spend a lot of time dealing with the written word, the way that health care providers interact with patients can also increase the demand for literacy. Plus when one is ill, not oxygenating well, facing life and death situations, attention span and ability to comprehend is further hindered. It would be great if your tool kit could have tips for health care providers to use when they interact with patients. Can't wait to hear more about it. -----Original Message----- From: healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Julie McKinney Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:46 PM To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov Subject: [HealthLiteracy 2396] Wednesday Question: What do you want in yourtoolkit? Hi Everyone, I am working on a new Health Literacy Toolkit and am looking for ideas on what resources you all would like to see in it. It will be online, and include practical resources for these kinds of activities: * addressing health literacy in adult literacy programs and classes * forming collaborations between health systems and adult literacy programs * jumpstarting a health literacy initiative It will be mostly for adult literacy professional development, but the resources will also be useful to health care/health education agencies. Examples of what it will include are: * curricula * stories of promising practices in ABE/Health Care collaboration * research articles * funding ideas Please send me your ideas so I can make sure this will fill some real needs! Thanks all, Julie Julie McKinney Health Literacy List Moderator World Education jmckinney at worlded.org ---------------------------------------------------- National Institute for Literacy Health and Literacy mailing list HealthLiteracy at nifl.gov To unsubscribe or change your subscription settings, please go to http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/healthliteracy Email delivered to pam.hebert at va.gov
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