Arina,
I am in the process of creating a website that will have links to about 150
separate, printable, low-literacy appropriate patient education materials
that are freely available from federal, state, or professional society sites
regarding the 100 or so most common conditions in our population.  This is a
project being hosted by Community Care of North Carolina (NC Medicaid's
community management system) and we have been working on it since late
Spring.  I hope to have the site up and running by the end of 2008.  When
the site is "live" I will post a link to this listserve to ask this august
group for input.

We hope to use a Web 2.0 format that allows for input/feedback, but I am not
sure yet whether that will be doable.  Stay tuned, maybe we can be of
particular use to you, given that you're in NC too.

Best,
Holly Biola, MD, MPH
Physician Consultant
Geriatrics/ Family Medicine/ Preventive Medicine
Office of Rural Health and Community Care of North Carolina
NC Department of Health and Human Services
holly.biola at gmail.com

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Bennett, Ian <Ian.Bennett at uphs.upenn.edu>wrote:


>

>

> Two useful reports are from NCSALL (released yesterday

> http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/fob/2008/fob_9b.pdf) and AHRQ

> www.*ahrq*.gov/clinic/epcsums/litsum.htm.

>

>

>

> I would also recommend the Institute of Medicine report on health literacy

> (see the IOM web site). In addition the American Medical Association

> publishes a book on health literacy (Eds Schwartzberg et al) and recently

> published a report on the NAAL health literacy measures (Sheida White).

> Another good book is "Advancing Health Literacy" by Zarcadoolas, Pleasant

> and Greer (2005). The National Institute for Literacy also just produced a

> webcast on Health literacy that might be useful and is accessible on their

> web site.

>

> Ian Bennett

>

>

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> *From:* healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:

> healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] *On Behalf Of *Arina Boldt

> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:18 AM

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> *Subject:* [HealthLiteracy 2364] starting point

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>

>

> Hi everyone,

>

>

>

> I am new to my position and need to address health literacy in my

> community. Can anyone make any suggestions as to where to start? I am

> working on a fixed budget.

>

>

>

> Many thanks,

>

>

>

> Arina Boldt

>

>

>

> Arina Boldt, MBA

>

> Director of Community Outreach

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> Albemarle Hospital

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