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From: healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Janet Sorensen
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:05 AM
To: The Health and Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1991] Re: Is health literacy in U.S. decreasing?
What are current trends in health literacy?

 

To the first question, I would say that health care is becoming a lot more
complex, so health literacy is a much bigger issue. People may be more
educated than in years past, but their health literacy may not be keeping up
with the complexity of the health-related information they need to
understand in order to make good decisions about their health.

Janet Sorensen

Little Rock, Arkansas

 

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[mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Charles Jackson
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:57 AM
To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1989] Is health literacy in U.S. decreasing? What
are current trends in health literacy?

I'm not sure how to answer these two questions:

1) Is health literacy in the U.S. decreasing?

2) What are current trends in health literacy? For example, is it safe to
say that medical libraries are forming more partnerships with public
libraries in health literacy initiatives?

Thank you.

Charles Jackson
Project Manager
Humana Foundation, 500 W. Main St., Louisville, KY 40202
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