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Preventable in fact but not in mind
Skin, lung an cervical cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and heart attack are major health conditions that are preventable through regular medical care and screening, and proper diet, excercise and...
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Health literacy advocacy must take in the bigger picture
Financial incentives in the U.S. healthcare model are changing from "rewarding for quantity to rewarding for quality" (Colpas, 2013, § 1), which is supposed to encourage health insurance providers to...
View ArticleHealth literacy about drug addiction
In addition to the ability to understand, obtain, evaluate and act on health care, health literacy should also include an understanding of addiction: how it starts, why it continues, etc. Many...
View ArticleHealth literacy: speak up and ask questions
A helpful cartoon providing lighthearted encouragement to speak up and ask questions when receiving medical care.(Yes, it was posted in 2011, and I did not come to the issue of health literacy until...
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Critical health literacy advocacy for adolescents and young adults
SeventyK, a non-profit advocating for the unique needs of adolescents and young adults (AYA) diagnosed with cancer, have created a short video to help patients and their families find a doctor with the...
View ArticleImprove health literacy: make accessing the Web possible and affordable
While many studies have documented the "digital divide" between older and younger Internet users and across socioeconomic groups, Choi and DiNitto (2013) looked at low-income homebound adults,...
View ArticleHealth literacy education materials in MN
The Minnesota Health Literacy Partnership has created and posted online free training materials designed to educate health professionals and individuals about the importance of health literacy. It...
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Getting to the bigger picture
In writing for this blog, I find myself frequently commenting on how one topic extends beyond the boundaries of its textbook definintion, and into other areas:If you want to raise health literacy...
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Using a Facebook game to improve mental health literacy
Using digital game based learning (DGBL) researchers at the University of Hong Kong created a Facebook game to teach about mental health disorders in order to aid in recognition and prevention. Content...
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Tunnel vision in research avoids the bigger picture
Patients who participate in shared decision making while in the hospital stay a little longer and increase healthcare costs by about $865 (Tak, Ruhnke & Meltzer, 2013). The researchers looked at...
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Health literacy and dental care by the number$
Noting that recent studies suggesting that caregivers' health literacy may play a critical role in the health outcomes of their children, researchers at the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of...
View ArticleHelpful video on culture, language and health literacy
"Effective health communication is as important to health care as clinical skill. To improve individual health and build healthy communities, health care providers need to recognize and address the...
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