Hi Everyone,

I think the AHRQ Pill Card that Cheryl just linked us to is an interesting exampleof a take-home product that could be initiated by either health educators or literacy educators, and help improve people's health and literacy skills at the same time.

For example, I can imagine creating these pill cards with students in an adult literacy class, and finding that not only does the student get a useful tool to put up in their medicine cabinet, but also a good practice in reading, writing, numeracy, and understanding information in chart form.

So my question today is: 

What other take-home products have literacy teachers or health educators created with students and patients that could also work like this? How do people respond? In what ways is it helpful or not?

Has anyone created these pill cards?

Love to hear some thoughts,
Julie

Julie McKinney
Discussion List Moderator
World Education/NCSALL
jmckinney at worlded.org


>>> "Clarke, Cheryl" <clarkec at wellmark.com> 02/26/08 3:13 PM >>>

Here is an interesting take on a medication list that uses graphics -
the "pill card":

 

I thought this would be of interest to the group.

 

http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/pillcard/pillcard.htm

 

 

 

Cheryl Clarke, R.Ph. 
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The Wellmark Foundation 
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