The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released The National Plan to Improve Health Literacy – with support from Sebelius and others who see the relationship between improving health literacy and increasing access to cost-effective, high-quality health care.
The action plan contains seven goals, each with specific strategies for different sectors of the [...]
Health Literacy
“Health literacy is needed to make health reform a reality” – Kathleen Sebelius
When the fine print is unintelligible even for native English speakers, what hope is there for Latino immigrants?
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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 [...]
Stacy Robison from CommunicateHealth interviewed on Health Literacy Out Loud
CommunicateHealth 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 podcast, [...]
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