[NIFL-HEALTH:4178] Re:

From: james phillips (jphilip@tenet.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 16:02:39 EDT


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Joanne,

       Does your organization have opportunities to work with the Spanish
department with teachers like Maria Victoria Garcia-Serrano and Cristina de
la Torre.  I really like their textbook "¡A que sí!" .  It's a
conversatioanal Spanish textbook with topics that would be of interest
here.

James Phillips, MLS
Librarian
South Texas Community College
Dr. Ramiro R. Casso Nursing and Allied Health Center
1101 East Vermont
McAllen, Texas 78501
956-683-3121
956-683-3190 (fax)
www.stcc.cc.tx.us
www.stcc.cc.tx.us/nah
phillips@stcc.cc.tx.us
jphilip@tenet.edu
se habla español




Joanne Schwartzberg wrote:

> Our textbook, Understanding Health Literacy:Implications for Medicine
> and Public Health, will indeed be published by American Medical
> Association Press in Chicago, IL.  We anticipate that it will be
> published in September 2004.
>
> The chapter in question is Chapter 2, Literacya aTesting in Health Care
> settings, authored by Terry Davis, Estella Marin, Julie Gazmararian and
> Mark Williams. We agree that it's a wonderful chapter, and we hope that
> you'll see for yourself next year!
>
> Joanne G. Schwartzberg, MD
> Director, Aging and Community Health
> American Medical Association
> 515 N. State St
> Chicago, IL  60610
> 312-464-5355
>
> >>> mwillia@emory.edu 9/26/2003 9:10:59 AM >>>
> It will be coming out of the AMA Press publications, but I suspect not
> until
> the Spring of next year.
>
> **************************************************************
> Mark V. Williams, MD, FACP
> Associate Professor of Medicine
> Director, Hospital Medicine Unit
> Emory University School of Medicine
>
> 770-452-3382
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nifl-health@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-health@nifl.gov] On Behalf Of
> Carolyn Parks Bani
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 8:08 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4165] Re:
>
> Please send the reference for the chapter mentioned. Thanks!
>
> Carol Parks Bani
>
> Mark V Williams, Md wrote:
>
> >Terry Davis certainly has developed a wonderful chapter reviewing all
>
> the
> >various tests; I was fortunate to go along for the ride. Dave Baker,
> Joanne
> >Nurss, and Ruth Parker deserve most of the credit for parenting the
> TOFHLA,
> >Spanish-TOFHLA, and short TOFHLA.
> >
> >Take care,
> >Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >Quoting Ian Bennett <ibennett@mail.med.upenn.edu>:
> >
> >> Terry Davis asked me to forward this to the list as she was having
> computer
> >> problems.
> >>
> >> This is terry Davis, mother of the REALM, speaking:
> >> I agree w you. Also the listserv might be interested to know that
> the
> AMA
> >> is coming out w a HL text . Mark Williams [ father of the TOFHLA}
> and
> I
> >> have written a chapter on assessment of literacy in health care
> settings
> >> which includes a discussion of all literacy tests we could find that
>
> have
> >> been used in health research.
> >> Terry C. Davis, Ph.D.
> >> Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
> >> LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport
> >> 1501 Kings Highway
> >> Shreveport, Louisiana 71130-3932
> >> phone (318) 675-5813
> >> fax (318) 675-4319
> >>
> >
> >
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Carolyn Parks Bani, PhD, Associate Prof.
> Southern Connecticut State University
> Department of Public Health
> 144 Farnham Avenue
> New Haven, CT 06515
> parksbanic1@southernct.edu
> (203)392-7029 (203)392-6965 (fax)



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