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Helen Osborne's award-winning, best-selling book:
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Filled with practical ideas and how-to strategies. Considered by many as today's most important health literacy text.
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Thanks for wanting to know what's new in Health Literacy Consulting. This issue highlights health literacy tips, podcasts, and links to a video, handbook, and medication label survey.
Health Literacy How-To Tip:
- Assess Success of Health Literacy Programs. Whether starting new initiatives or revising ongoing programs, make sure to periodically assess health literacy success. Doing so not only helps maintain focus but also demonstrates your commitment to moving health literacy forward. Learn more in this month's How-To Tip.
Health Literacy Out Loud (HLOL) Podcasts:
- Each Patient's Information Journey. Andy Rosenberg is creating an important online patient education tool that is filled with accurate, up-to-date, personalized content. This builds on Andy's professional experience in health policy and government affairs with his personal experience as a caregiver. Listen as Andy talks about matching education to where patients are along their information journeys.
- Best Case/Worst Case: A Strategy to Manage Uncertainty in Shared Decision-Making. Dr. Gretchen Schwarze is a practicing vascular surgeon. She also is researching ways to help patients and families make decisions about high-risk operations and end-of-life care. In this podcast she talks about "Best Case/Worst Case," a strategy that uses narrative, a graphic aid, and simplicity to help accomplish these goals.
- Older Adults, Brain Changes, and Health Understanding. Mark Hochhauser PhD is a psychologist and readability consultant. In this podcast he talks about brain changes that tend to decline with age. Mark then highlights ways for patients and families to help, along with possibilities of emerging technologies.
Health Literacy Links:
- Better Relationships for Better Health. A wonderful new video about improving healthcare for people with disabilities. It builds on the talents and wisdom of patients and professionals alike. This video is made possible with funding from the South Shore Community Partners in Prevention's Health Literacy Initiative.
- Health Literacy Month Handbook: The Event Planning Guide for Health Literacy Advocates. October is Health Literacy Month. This how-to Handbook includes abundant examples of awareness-raising events. To receive a free PDF, email Beth Scott of IHA (Institute for Healthcare Advancement).
- Wisconsin Health Literacy recently hosted a terrific workshop about medication labels. Now they're inviting all of us (yes, you too) to share opinions and stories. But you need to do so by August 31, 2017. Here's a link to their easy, thought-provoking, and very worthy survey about medication labels
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Health literacy is bigger than any one person, program, or profession. Thanks for all you do to make health information easier for everyone to understand.
Until September ~Helen Osborne
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