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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, resources for Health Literacy Month, and an intriguing health literacy meeting.
Health Literacy How-To Tip:
- Plain Language: Writing in Ways Others Can Understand. To me, plain language is both a science (following well-tested rules) and art (applying these rules in ways that readers find engaging and appealing). This month's How-To Tip is a brief look at doing just that.
Health Literacy Out Loud (HLOL) Podcasts:
- Using Technology to Share and Communicate the Experience of Illness. Pam Ressler is my go-to person about social media and health. In this podcast she talks about how digital communication helps patients make meaning of illness, and move toward personalization and action.
- 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.
October is Health Literacy Month! Here are some free resources to help you plan, promote, and run an awareness-raising event:
- Health Literacy Month Handbook: The Event Planning Guide for Health Literacy Advocates. Includes lots of how-to tips along with examples of events to raise health literacy awareness. To receive a free PDF of this Handbook, email Beth Scott of IHA (Institute for Healthcare Advancement).
- Health Literacy Month Logo. Show that your participation is part of a worldwide campaign. I'm happy to share the Health Literacy Month logo. Email me and I'll send you that image along with permission to use.
- Health Literacy Hero Him, Her, and Them. Health Literacy Heroes find health literacy problems and act to solve them. Encourage others to take action. Email me to request these 3 Health Literacy Hero images along with a Health Literacy Hero award form you are welcome to use.
Health Literacy Meeting
- The Health Literacy Roundtable of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is conducting a one-day public workshop, "Building the Case for Health Literacy" on November 15, 2017. This looks so intriguing that I decided take a quick trip to Washington DC. Registration is now open to attend for free either in person or online.
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We need to communicate in all the ways that work. That includes digital communication, graphic aids, printed materials, and in-person events. Thanks for all the ways you help others learn and understand about health and health literacy. Until October ~Helen Osborne
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