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Hello Everyone.
We have all seen some fine materials developed for clinicians dealing with
possibly low literate patients. What ( or even how) can we advise an adult
illiterate needing to visit a medical facility? Remember - we cannot tell who
is who by looking and chances are, if the person has underdeveloped
reading/arithmetical skill, he or she has probably not told anyone. Thus, there would
be no one to accompany that adult. But such men and women still seek the
same healthcare as everyone else does.
Does anyone have some shamefree advice we can give to the general public and
thus, include the illiterate people in this safety net?
Thank you for your thoughts and time.
Ilene
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In a message dated 9/4/2008 12:30:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Rolande_DAmour at phac-aspc.gc.ca writes:
Hello everyone,
Here is the link to the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario 's website
with some Canadian info FYI
http://www.rnao.org/Page.asp?PageID=122&ContentID=2364&SiteNodeID=461
Thank you for providing me with links and information on health literacy. I
am starting my last year in the Master's program and will be working on a
project on my 2 passions: health literacy and Creutsfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Kind regards,
Rolande
Rolande D'Amour
Infirmière-conseil/Nurse consultant
Système de surveillance
de la maladie de Creutzfeldt-Jakob /
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System
Agence de santé publique du Canada/
Public Health Agency of Canada
Tel: (613) 946-9863 / 1-888-489-2999
Fax: (613) 952-6668
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2008-09-03 01:20 [HealthLiteracy 2279] New
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Hello all,
I’m writing to let you about a new resource you can use to help create
consumer information materials on quality of care and evidence-based
medicine. This “Communication Toolkit: Using Information to Get High
Quality Care” was developed by the American Institutes for Research and
my company, McGee & Evers Consulting, Inc., with support from the
California Health Care Foundation. It was developed to help employers,
labor unions, and others frame and deliver messages to employees about
the meaning and importance of getting evidence-based health care. It is
hosted by the National Business Group on Health (NBGH) at its website:
http://www.businessgrouphealth.org/benefitstopics/et_communications.cfm
This new toolkit provides 14 Word documents you can download and adapt
in whatever way you wish, for any audience, free of charge. Topics
include using medical evidence to guide treatment choices, finding and
using information about quality of care, and taking an active part in
managing your own care. The documents were created using guidelines for
making written material clear and effective. They are action-oriented,
written to be suitable for people with a range of literacy skills, and
they have been thoroughly tested. To assess appeal and comprehension,
the project conducted a total of 57 two-hour individual interviews with
people in several cities. The toolkit project team used feedback from
interviewees to revise the documents and then tested them again.
I welcome your feedback on these materials. If you use them and are
willing to share your experiences, I’d love to hear from you.
Best wishes,
Jeanne McGee
McGee & Evers Consulting, Inc.
1924 NW 111^th Street
Vancouver WA 98685
360 574-4744
jmcgee at pacifier.com
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