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Health literacy from A to Z : practical ways to communicate your health message / Helen Osborne.
Holman Biotech Commons RA440 .O825 2005
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Levy Dental Medicine Library - Stacks RA440 .O825 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osborne, Helen, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health education.
- Communication in medicine.
- Health Education.
- Patient Education as Topic.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Education.
- Patient Education as Topic.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Practical ways to communicate your health message
- Place of Publication:
- Sudbury, Mass : Jones and Bartlett, [2005]
- Summary:
- Research shows that nearly half of all Americans have difficulty understanding and using health information. The need for a health literacy resource has never been greater. Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message is an innovative and easy-to-use resource guide on ways to effectively convey health information. Whether you are a health provider, public health specialist, health educator, practice manager, literacy teacher, professor, student, or librarian, this book is for you.
- Contents:
- Assessing Literacy in Healthcare 7
- Assessing Readability 13
- Bulleted Lists 21
- Choosing, Adapting, and Reviewing Teaching Materials 27
- Consumer Health Libraries 33
- Decision Aids and Shared Decision-Making 39
- Email 45
- Ethics of Simplicity 51
- Feedback: Interviews and Focus Groups 57
- Feng Shui and Other Environmental Considerations 63
- Forms and Other "Reading-to-Do" Documents 67
- Groups, Classes, and Educational Programs 73
- Hearing: Communicating with People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing 79
- Helping Patients Prepare for and Participate in Healthcare 85
- Helping Patients Remember and Follow Medical Instructions 93
- Humor 99
- Internet Information 103
- Interpreters: Foreign and American Sign Language 109
- Knowledge: Learning and Teaching 117
- Language and Culture: Communicating with People from Other Languages and Lands 123
- Literacy: Communicating with People Who Do Not Read or Read Well 131
- Media: Videotapes, Audiotapes, CDs, and DVDs 139
- Medical-Legal Documents 145
- Metaphors and Analogies 151
- Numbers 155
- Objects and Models 163
- Older Adults 167
- Pictographs 175
- Plain Language 179
- Quality 189
- Risk Communication 193
- Signs, Maps, and Other Navigation Tools 199
- Stories and Narratives 205
- Talking and Listening 211
- Telephone 219
- Touchscreen Technology 225
- Translations 231
- Universal Design in Print and on the Web 235
- Vision: Communication with People Who Are Blind or Have Limited Vision 239
- Visuals 245
- Website Design 251
- Word Choice 257
- X-tras 263
- You: Empathy and Humanity 269
- Zest and Pizzazz 273
- Strategies, Ideas, and Suggestions 274
- Eight Ways You Can Improve Health Communication 277
- Health Literacy Month 281.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0763745502
- OCLC:
- 54907036
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