251195 Using the principles of health literacy to drive positive dietary behavior change

Monday, October 31, 2011: 1:00 PM

Katrina Butner, PhD, RD , Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, US Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD
     
This session will provide an overview of health literacy principles, and a discussion of how those principles are being used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop communication materials related to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010. HHS' formative nutrition communications research among adults with limited health literacy will be described, along with HHS' Dietary Guidelines communication goals. Finally, examples of communication resources will be presented, as available.

Learning Areas:
Communication and informatics
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines

Learning Objectives:
1) Define health literacy and describe basic principles of applying health literacy principles to communications materials. 2) Describe formative research used to develop 2010 Dietary Guidelines communication strategies.

Keywords: Nutrition, Communication

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to present on this topic since I have a PhD in nutrition and work as a Prevention Science Fellow in the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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