[NIFL-HEALTH:4551] October is Health Literacy Month

From: Helen Osborne (helen@healthliteracy.com)
Date: Thu Sep 30 2004 - 19:29:42 EDT


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Hello NIFL-Health,

October is Health Literacy Month! Started in 1999, individuals and
organizations around the world are helping to raise awareness about the
importance of understandable health information.

In honor of our 5th anniversary, I'm hoping that a record number of events
will be added this year to the Health Literacy Month map at
www.healthliteracymonth.org. I've already received new U.S. postings from
Iowa, North Carolina, South Dakota, Maryland, New York, New Mexico, Ohio,
Wisconsin, Georgia, Kentucky, and Massachusetts. In Canada, new health
literacy events have been added to the map from British Columbia, Ontario,
and Saskatchewan. And overseas, Scotland and Kenya are now on the map.

You, too, can get on the Health Literacy Month map. To submit your event, go
to www.healthliteracymonth.org, and click on the map links. Please by clear,
succinct, and brief in your write-up, highlighting how your health literacy
event helps raise awareness about the importance of understandable health
information.

Together, let's let the world know why health literacy matters!
~Helen

Helen Osborne M.Ed., OTR/L
President: Health Literacy Consulting, http://www.healthliteracy.com
Founder: Health Literacy Month, http://www.healthliteracymonth.org
Author: "Health Literacy from A to Z,"
http://www.healthliteracy.com/books.html
E-mail: Helen@healthliteracy.com
Phone: 508-653-1199
31 Highland Street #201, Natick, MA 01760
Subscribe to the free "What's New" elist at www.healthliteracy.com



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