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From: "Marcia Zorn" <ZORNM@mail.nlm.nih.gov>
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Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:2136] Re: plain language survey info
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A VERY new book (the paperback is c2000) called Explaining illness : research, theory, and strategies / edited by Bryan B. Whaley, PhD has been published by Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. It has a review chapter by Terry Davis about health communication with low literacy populations. While it doesn't go into a whole lot of detail about plain language, it does provide a good "need" overview from clinical and community research.
The whole book is devoted to reviews of health communication ("explaining illness) and characteristics unique to particular groups (thus, different chapters discuss barriers unique to particular groups), such as the elderly, children, native Americans, etc. The first chapter by Teresa Thompson (editor of the journal, Health Communication) provides an overview/review of the field. The other chapters (sometimes written collaboratively by health communcations researchers at more than one university) provide remarkably thorough overviews of health communication research past and present for particular populations. Strategies are an important part of working with each group. The bibliographies are lengthy compared to what I usually see; and the indexes make it possible to search for communication theorists/researchers by name or by subject. I believe this to be the most up-to-date and comprehensive and practical health communication monograph I have seen. The paperback edition has only recently become available.
Marcia Zorn, MA, MLS
>>> Kathryn A Finnie <kfinnie@juno.com> 01/21/00 04:30PM >>>
A potential funder has asked us to to gather information about barriers
to accessing health care for people with little or no literacy skills.
Has anyone done a "plain language" survey of people with low literacy
skills that might include questions about barriers to accessing health
care?
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