[NIFL-WOMENLIT:3306] health literacy month

From: Daphne Greenberg (alcdgg@langate.gsu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 19 2005 - 12:12:57 EDT


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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.

If you go to:to http://www.healthliteracy.com/hlmonth/map.html
you can see what various states are doing in honor of health literacy month. So far there are postings from Nebraska, Georgia, Florida, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania in the United States. Plus postings from British Columbia and 
Saskatchewan in Canada.

If you are doing something for health literacy month, feel free to tell the world! Go
to http://www.healthliteracy.com/hlmonth/map.html and add your description.

If you would like to purchase health literacy bookmarks go to the following link to learn more: 
http://www.healthliteracy.com/hlmonth/poster.html



Daphne Greenberg
Assistant Professor
Educational Psych. & Special Ed.
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3979
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg@gsu.edu

Daphne Greenberg
Associate Director
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3977
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3977
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg@gsu.edu



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