Check out “The Language of Care” in Newsweek (June 9, 2010). My health-insurance company has a nice Spanish-language Web site full of information about diet, exercise, and healthy living, but the terms of the policy are in English—and it’s this fine print that scares me. Randy Nieves Ruiz talks about how language is a barrier [...]
June 2010
When the fine print is unintelligible even for native English speakers, what hope is there for Latino immigrants?
By Sarah | June 22, 2010Plain Writing Act of 2010 Passes the House
By Stacy | June 14, 2010The Plain Writing Act was passed by the House of Representatives as part of Sunshine Week, a national initiative to encourage open government. The Plain Writing Act will require federal agencies to write public documents in plain language. Rep. Bruce Braley, who introduced the bill, said: “There is no reason why the federal government can’t [...]
Stacy Robison from CommunicateHealth interviewed on Health Literacy Out Loud
By Sarah | June 2, 2010CommunicateHealth co-founder Stacy Robison was recently featured on Health Literacy Out Loud, a podcast series produced by health literacy advocate Helen Osborne. Stacy chats with Helen about CommunicateHealth’s work developing the Quick Guide to Healthy Living, part of the award-winning healthfinder.gov Web site from the U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. In the [...]
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