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[HealthLiteracy 1946] Re: reaching health care workers
Linda Shohet
lshohet at dawsoncollege.qc.caWed Apr 23 12:41:32 EDT 2008
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Thanks, Marg.
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:25:58 -0700, Marg Rose wrote
> Here is a resource for health care workers that you can hand over
> when frustrated or follow up and send later, and encourage them to
> read for other clients who may struggle to understand printed
> material and then have compliance issues. It was created by Charles
> Moody of Literacy Partners of Manitoba, and is available at:
> http://www.plainlanguage.mb.literacy.ca/resource.htm entitled Handy Guide
> for Health Practitioners about Low Literacy.There are other
> documents there as well, such as a Clear Doc Index for reviewing of
> their materials. Charles is a fantastic workshop leader who has done
> outreach to health educators for the past 3 years. He is at plain
> words.ca if you are interested. Great Aussie guy.
>
> Dr. Linda Shohet of the Centre for Literacy in Quebec does workshops
> "What if they don't understand" with health care providers. Her
> centre of excellence has produced incredible materials, an annotated
> bibliography and critical review of plain language and health
> literacy resources to help you grasp the magnitude of this issue.
> She is at lshohet (at) dawsoncollege.qc.ca
>
> Hope these leads help!
>
> Marg Rose, Collaborative Consulting
> Victoria, BC
>
> "Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it."
> ~Irving
> Berlin
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