[HealthLiteracy 493] Re: Wed. Question: Navigating HealthcareHealthyRoadsMedia magillispie at healthyroadsmedia.orgThu Dec 14 14:33:18 EST 2006
There is an interesting project being carried out by Hablamos Juntos that is looking at the use of universal symbols to help people navigate in healthcare settings (www.hablamosjuntos.org/signage/default.index.asp) . They have developed a set of symbols as well as some guidance on implementing them. - Mary Alice Mary Alice Gillispie, MD Healthy Roads Media, Director www.healthyroadsmedia.org Tel 406-556-5877 At 12:15 PM 12/13/2006, you wrote: >Hi Everyone, > >I want to pass on an article from the latest issue of Focus on Basics >which may interest you, and then ask a question about it. > >Navigating Helathcare >by Jennie Anderson and Rima Rudd >http://www.ncsall.net/index.php?id=1156 > >This looks at the findings of teams of adult literacy teachers and >students, along with graduate students and others who tried to look for >certain places in hospitals and recorded the students responses to the >signs and maps leading them. Researchers also looked at the reading >level of signs and instructions along the way. Read about this unique >approach to studying the navigation of a system with significant >literacy-related barriers, and about the implications for adult >educators and medical professionals as they work to make healthcare more >accessible to all. > >Question: Walk through your hospital or clinic and look at it from the >eyes of someone who's never been there and has low literacy or English >skills. What do you notice? How could it be improved? And for ABE >teachers: how might you help prepare your students to navigate this >system more easily? > >Please let me know what you think about this! > >All the best, >Julie > >Julie McKinney >Discussion List Moderator >World Education/NCSALL >jmckinney at worlded.org > >---------------------------------------------------- >National Institute for Literacy >Health and Literacy mailing list >HealthLiteracy at nifl.gov >To unsubscribe or change your subscription settings, please go to >http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/healthliteracy
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