Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i57FfY906549; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:41:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:41:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <40C48B68.1020405@goldfieldaccess.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Archie Willard <millard@goldfieldaccess.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4429] New Readers of Iowa Conference X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2861 Lines: 62 The planning of the 15th New Readers of Iowa Conference, “Health and Literacy Working Together” is coming together. This conference will be held September 10-11 in Des Moines, Iowa, at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel. If you are an adult learner and want to learn more about health or if you are a professional who wants to learn together with us, please call Karmen Shriver at North Iowa Area Community College at 641-422-4341 for information and/or to register. There is no conference fee. For those who come the night before, on Thursday evening, September 9, pharmacists will be there to visit with you about your medications. We encourage you to bring your medications. The reason for having a health literacy conference is to develop confidence in adult learners to speak up about their health literacy problems and for different adult learner groups to build partnerships with health professionals to find health literacy solutions. The New Readers of Iowa have partnered with the Iowa Health System and we have been attending each others’ meetings to work together to develop better communications in health care. Some of the things we want to accomplish at this conference are: (1) To learn from the panel of health professionals. (2) To look at and work on health forms and questionnaires. (3) To make a health literacy statement. (4) To learn how to navigate the health system. At the conference, the Iowa Health System will have a panel of health professionals (doctor, pharmacist, nutritionist, nurse practitioner and nurse). Later at the conference people from the Iowa Health System will be working with the adult learners to look at health forms and questionnaires to see if the adult learners can comprehend them and for them to make recommendations about the forms and questionnaires. The adult learners will be working together to make a health literacy statement. It is very important to us as adult learners to express ourselves in this way to the health field and to the literacy field. Researchers from the School of Public Health at Harvard will work with us to learn how to navigate the health system. At this conference we all will be learning from each other. At this time, scheduled speakers at the conference are: Marty Finsterbush, Executive Director of VALUE; Pat Blackwell, an adult learner, now a nurse from Indiana; and Marsha Tate, Senior Vice President from ProLiteracy. Dr. Claudia Corwin, formerly a transplant surgeon at the University of Iowa and still on their staff, will be on our health professional panel. The New Readers of Iowa, The Iowa Health System, VALUE, Harvard School of Public Health, and ProLiteracy will be represented at this conference. Archie Willard Conference Chair -- Archie Willard millard@goldfieldaccess.net URL - http://www.readiowa.org/archiew.html
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