Great suggestions,Sarah and great job, Matt!  Please be sure the font  is not 
too large.  If it is, it will look like a young child's reader and  degrade 
the adults who already feel embarrassed because of their  pre-developed skills.
 
Ilene
_ihabramson at aol.com_ (mailto:ihabramson at aol.com) 
 
 In a message dated 6/23/2008 9:42:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
sbeaman at webster.edu writes:

Matt,

Congratulations on  making a real effort to reach out to low literate 
patients!

A quick  look at the patient information brought two things to mind.  One is 
that  the print font is san serif which is not as easy to read for a low 
literate  person than a serif font.  Secondly, the readability level is that of a  
seventh grade plus.  I would rewrite this to make it on a fourth or fifth  
grade readability at most.  You might want to have an adult education  class take 
a look at the information to see if it is clear to them.

All  the best!

Sarah Beaman-Jones

On 6/23/08 1:43 PM, "Matt Gayer"  <_mcggayer at sbcglobal.net_ 
(mip://05cce318/mcggayer@sbcglobal.net) >  wrote:


Colleagues,

We just  developed a health literacy portion on our website for the Jefferson 
County  Health Department.  This is one of the first steps in the first 
effort  to improve health literacy in our county, and to serve as positive models  
and resources for other counties to follow. I would greatly appreciate it if  
you could take the time to view the health literacy portion that I just  
developed and provide any and all positive or negative feedback concerning  the 
site.  The link will take you to the health literacy homepage of  our website, 
with links on the left to our health literacy page for  patients, providers, and 
public health professionals, as well as a resource  page.  I hope this site 
can serve as a resource to you and I look  forward to hearing your comments 
regarding the health literacy site.  The website is:

_http://www.jeffcohealth.org/healthed/healthed_healthliteracy.aspx_ 
(http://www.jeffcohealth.org/healthed/healthed_healthliteracy.aspx) 





Thank  you,

Matt


Matt Gayer
Community Health  Intern
Jefferson County Health Department
1818 Lonedell  Drive
Arnold, Missouri, 63010
Work Phone 636-282-1010
Cell Phone  636-232-4703
 
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