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Session: Language and Literacy as Impediments to Health Care Access
3105.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Oral
Language and Literacy as Impediments to Health Care Access
Abstracts in this session: discuss the communication needs of limited English proficient patients, idenity poicy issues to be addressed to assist cliinicians in providing care to LED patients and describe a tool to integrate multilingual communitcations into emergency plans.
Learning Objectives: Attendees will be able to: 1)discuss the communication needs of limited English proficient patients; 2)idenity poicy issues to be addressed to assist cliinicians in providing care to LED patients; and 3)learn of the tool to integrate multilingual communitcations into emergency plans.
Moderator(s):Danielle Greene, DrPH
10:30 AMEffective communication with Limited English Proficiency patients: Assessment of hospital policies, procedures and needs
Firoozeh Molaparast Vali, PhD, Annette Lombardo, MPH
10:45 AMAssessing health literacy practices in primary care settings
Sharon E. Barrett, MS, Kathie Westpheling, MPH, Jennifer Sheen Puryear, MPH, Anita Hawkins, PHD
11:00 AMA strategy to establish sustainable language access programs  [ Recorded presentation ]
Claire C. Jones, MEd
11:15 AMEnsuring language access during an emergency: Guidance for local boards of health  [ Recorded presentation ]
Sheryl D. Taylor, MPH, Brunilda Torres, MSW, Jeffrey Timperi, MPA
11:30 AMCultural sensitivity & reading level assessment of cancer education materials
Punam J. Parikh, MPH, Marielos Vega, RN, Patricia Pinto, BA, Azadeh Tasslimi, BA, Daniel M. Rosenblum, PhD, Jeanne Ferrante, MD, Stanley H. Weiss, MD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Epidemiology; Medical Care; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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