Lisa,  Joe, and others, 

 

I am working on a health literacy project in rural Maine which is primarily
Internet-based.  The goal of the project is to increase health literacy and
the ability to use the Internet to find reliable and usable health
information among youth and young adults.  I am working with middle and high
school teachers, teachers in adult education, and public librarians to
implement and evaluate the project.  There is an intergenerational component
where the youth and young adults will work with seniors in their families
and the community to help them use the Internet to find answers pressing
health questions.  So far the project is well received by all involved.  

 

Sabrina 

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Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, Health Literacy Consultant

Health Information Literacy Outreach Project 

River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition

781-835-6488 phone; 781-391-4409 fax;

 <mailto:sabrina_kurtz-rossi at comcast.net> sabrina_kurtz-rossi at comcast.net

 

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From: healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of lisa jones
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:29 PM
To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 2350] Re: Is the web a viable way to improve
healthliteracy?

 

Joe-
 
I think the internet (done right) has to potential to be extremely powerful.
However, using the internet to improve health literacy requires patients to
have "computer literacy". BY computer literacy I mean the ability to use a
computer, navigate the internet and distinguish good sources of information
from all the junk that's out there.
 
I don't know of any studies to prove this, but I suspect that populations
with low health literacy will also have low computer literacy.
 
I know in my community health center population, my patients don't have cars
or phones..let alone computers.

 
Id be interested in what the adult ed population thinks about computer
literacy and health literacy
 
Lisa
 
Lisa M. Jones,MD

 

 
 

 

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> I am a student at Georgia State in the Instructional Technology program. I

was curious how critical you all (as health literacy professionals) consider
the web to be in your practice? Is it more important for your groups, or is
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