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Session: Advances in Health Literacy
5139.0: Wednesday, November 08, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Advances in Health Literacy
The large number of citizens who do not have the capacity to effectively make health decisions because of their inability to understand health information is cause for tremendous concern. Session presenters will provide information about the scope of the problem. Speakers in this session will also address intervention strategies to increase health literacy.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Understand principles of health literacy in the areas of science, civic and cultural literacy that they can apply to improve the daily performance of health professionals and health programs. 2. Identify some health literacy demands their health specialty or health focus places on low health literate patients/consumers. 3. Explain the difference among health literacy measures of readability, comprehensibility and complexity.
Moderator(s):Lynn D. Woodhouse, M Ed, EdD, MPH
12:30 PMAdvancing Health Literacy  [ Recorded presentation ]
Christina Zarcadoolas, PhD, Andrew Pleasant, PhD, David Greer, M D
12:45 PMTelling stories for change: Transferring stigma-related research to educational film  [ Recorded presentation ]
Lisa M. Kuhns, MPH, Jesus Ramirez-Valles, MPH, PhD
1:00 PMHealth promotion materials: What are their demands on health literacy?  [ Recorded presentation ]
Christine Hollis, MPH, MPS, Deborah L. Helitzer, ScD, Jane Cotner, MS
1:15 PMExpanding the concept of health literacy: A phenomenological study contextualizing low health literacy within the lives of inner city mothers  [ Recorded presentation ]
Tifanie Hudgins, MPH, CHES, Lynn D. Woodhouse, M Ed, EdD, MPH
1:30 PMMedia wise families: Evaluation of a media literacy-based health promotion intervention  [ Recorded presentation ]
Lynda Bergsma, PhD, Jennifer Peters, Heather Free
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by:APHA-International Human Rights Committee; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Latino Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA