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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><img width=400 height=37
id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.gif@01C86A6D.80498320"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>LINCS</span></font></i></b><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'> Regional Resource Centers Sponsor Three Regional Health Literacy Summits
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The National Institute for Literacy
through its <i><span style='font-style:italic'>LINCS</span></i> Regional
Resource Centers is convening adult literacy and health professionals in three
locations in February and March to share information about the research on
health literacy and resources for implementing health literacy programming.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Health literacy is often defined as
the ability to read, understand, and act upon health-related information.
Improving health literacy may improve the health status and quality of life of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
adults, especially among adults with marginal literacy skills. The National
Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) reported the extent of low health literacy
in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Health Literacy of America's Adults:
Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy</span></i>. About
22 percent of adults only had Basic health literacy and 14 percent had Below
Basic health literacy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The <i><span style='font-style:italic'>LINCS</span></i>
health summits will share information on the state of health literacy in the
nation and address how partnerships among adult literacy providers and health
literacy providers can help in eliminating literacy barriers in accessing
quality health care. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>For contact information and
registration, please go to: <a
href="http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/news_events/02-08-08.html">http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/news_events/02-08-08.html</a>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Region 3 will meet
February 28, 2008 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State></st1:place>.</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> This summit
is sponsored by Literacyworks in partnership with San Francisco State
University College of Humanities, Center for Immigrant and Refugee Community
Literacy Education (CIRCLE); Community Engagement Program, University of California
San Francisco (UCSF); and Center for Vulnerable Populations, UCFS/San Francisco
General Hospital. Presenters include Dr. Dean Schillinger, MD, University of
California San Francisco Associate Professor of Medicine, and various literacy
providers and adult students. <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Region 2 will meet
March 5, 2008 in Atlanta, GA.</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> This summit is sponsored by the
Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee, in partnership with the
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy, Georgia State University; Office of
Adult Literacy, Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education; and
Literacy Action, Inc. (Atlanta). Presenters include Cynthia Baur (US/DHHS) and
Dr. Yolanda Partida, UCSF Fresno. <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Region 1 will meet
March 25-26, 2008 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">IN.</st1:State></st1:place> </span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This summit
is sponsored by World Education and Kent State University/Ohio Literacy
Resource Center in partnership with Indiana Department of Education/Division of
Adult Education. Among the presenters are Paul D. Smith, MD, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:PlaceName>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Health literacy: A clinician's point of
view</span></i>) and Andrew Pleasant, Ph.D., <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Advancing health literacy: Building bridges</span></i>).
The summit will also highlight health literacy initiatives in <st1:State w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:State>,
<st1:City w:st="on">New York</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Iowa</st1:State>
and <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rhode Island</st1:place></st1:State>.
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Jo Maralit<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>National Institute for Literacy<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>mmaralit@nifl.gov<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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