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Unified Health Communication

The Health Resources and Services is offering a free online learning experience. Unified Health Communication 101: Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency is a free on-line learning experience that will help you improve your patient communication skills, increase your awareness and knowledge of the three main factors that affect your communication with patients: health literacy, cultural competency and low English proficiency implement patient-centered communication practices that demonstrate cultural competency and appropriately address patients with limited health literacy and low English proficiency You may choose to take the course for credit (CEU/CE, CHES, CME, CNE) or not for credit. The course has five modules and is estimated to take a total of 5 hours to complete. You may complete the course at your own pace. The course is also helpful for consumers who want to improve their ability to talk with their healthcare provider, understand health information and access care. The course could be valuable for librarians as they reach out to provide support and information to the public and health professionals and would provide them another option to obtain continuing education units. In addition, The Unified Health Communication course could complement The Medical Library Association and National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine (NLM) work in literacy research, curriculum design and hospital outreach.

Keywords

Health; Health Communication; Health Literacy; Online Learning;

Languages

English

Contents

Consumer Health

Health Services Research

Formats

Tutorial

Audiences

Information Professionals

Health Professionals

Public

Contacts

N/A

Publication Date:

January 23, 2008

This record was added on January 23, 2008 and last modified on January 23, 2008.