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Health Information Literacy in Your Hospital
For those of you working in a hospital setting, the following was posted on MCMLA [mcmla-l@listserv.kumc.edu] Are you involved in health information literacy in your hospital? Share your story! We would love to hear what you are doing and what … Continue reading
3rd Annual Kentucky Health Literacy Summit – March 22-23, 2012
3rd Annual Kentucky Health Literacy Summit Building Your Health Literacy Toolkit March 22-23, 2012 Marriott Griffin Gate Hotel Lexington, Kentucky Open to all those interested inimproving their health literacy and patient communications skills. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE: – Cindy Brach, AHRQ … Continue reading
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Tagged Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Education, HealthLiteracy, libraries, literacy
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Health Literacy Challenge for Grades 6-12
The following was posted on the HealthLiteracy listserv. The ¡VIVA! Peer Tutors of the South Texas Independent School District are conducting a nationwide health literacy challenge. Students enrolled in U.S. schools in grades 6-12 can submit a video promoting the … Continue reading
Two New Health Literacy Papers
The following was posted on the HealthLiteracy listserv. Please check the Health Affairs’ web site for a new paper on health literacy and health policy by HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Howard Koh and other HHS colleagues. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2012/01/18/hlthaff.2011.1169 (You should … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, health, Health Policy, HealthLiteracy, Iowa, literacy, United State
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New Year’s Resolution: Be Ready
The following was posted on the BHIC Blog. Start the New Year right by getting prepared. Check out the daily preparedness tips from the CDC Public Health Matters blog during the month of January: http://ow.ly/8gj [CDC Office of Public Health … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, health, New Year, Public Health, Public Health and Safety, United States
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Recently Published…
The following were retrieved from a recent NCBI search of PubMed. The Role of Health Literacy on African American and Hispanic/Latino Perspectives on Cancer Clinical Trials.Evans KR, Lewis MJ, Hudson SV. J Cancer Educ. 2011 Dec 28. [Epub ahead of … Continue reading
Understanding Health Literacy
The following was posted on the BHIC Blog. http://www.mhpa.org/Events/dsp_event.cfm?eventID=153 January 12, 11:00 AM EST. The webinar will explain low health literacy, how it negatively affects health outcomes and costs, and will provide simple solutions, best practices, and tools, including the … Continue reading
Public Health News
as seen on [PHPARTNERS_LINK@LIST.NIH.GOV] http://www.newpublichealth.org Online destination for information and discussion about public health. The content includes daily roundups of public health news and information, profiles of individuals working on the front lines of public health, perspectives from leaders and … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, health, Organizations, Public Health, Public Health and Safety, United States
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Health Data Tools and Statistics on PHPartners.org
The following was posted on the BHIC Blog; Sep 11, 2011 10:26 PM by Cheryl Rowan The Health Data Tools and Statistics page (http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html) on the PHPartners website (http://phpartners.org) website has been reorganized to make public health data and statistics easier to find … Continue reading
Charlotte Schultz Learning Commons – Inspiring Achievement
View from the Entrance to John Moritz Library One of the events that occurred during my recent absence from the office was the opening of the Charlotte Schultz Learning Commons here on the campus of Nebraska Methodist College in … Continue reading
