[NIFL-HEALTH:3714] Re: Health Literacy

From: Mary Vriniotis ( )
Date: Mon Jun 03 2002 - 10:08:05 EDT

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Thank you Archie for letting us know of your efforts
in Illinois.  This will actually be the second time
the medical and adult eduction communities partner to
make a video.  Dr. Rima Rudd, at the Harvard School of
Public Health, collaborated with adult learners for
the making of her video, "In Plan Language".  


Emily Zobel
Coordinator
Health Literacy Studies
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA

 --- Archie Willard <millard@goldfieldaccess.net>
wrote:
> The New Readers for New Life of Illinois will host
> their 9th new reader
> conference June 7, 8 and 9 at Bradley University in
> Peoria, Illinois.
> Dr. Terry Davis from LSU Medical School will bring a
> team to make a
> video for the AMA to help doctors become more aware
> of literacy problems
> that some of their patients may have. A few of the
> adult learners will
> be asked to take part in the video. It will be a
> first for adult
> learners-- partnering with people from the medical
> field to help find
> ways to bring understanding about people with poor
> literacy skills. The
> doctors and the team members will be the students at
> this conference and
> the adult learners will be the teachers. This has
> never happened before.
> There will be a general session about
> health-literacy.  Ruth Parker, MD
> and Mark Williams, MD from Emery Medical School will
> answer questions
> and explain to the adult learners how they can be
> better informed
> patients before visiting a medical office. Other
> team members will be a
> part of this session. I have attended six of
> Illinois’ New Readers
> Conferences and have worn many different hats at
> them. At this
> conference I will be a member of Dr. Davis’ team.
> 
> Archie Willard
> Adult Learner
> 
> --
> Archie Willard
> millard@goldfieldaccess.net
> URL - http://www.readiowa.org/archiew.html
> 
> 
> 


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