Hi Julie and all:

As others had already pointed out, there is no one organization  
collecting and sharing what all states are doing about health literacy  
and their various resources. But, I wanted to share with you all two  
resources we at Health Literacy Innovations have created in attempts  
to helping and  sharing national data.

The first one is the  National Survey of Medicaid Guidelines for  
Health Literacy, a report, which captured each state’s requirement for  
readability standards.

Another useful tool for anyone seeking information and trying to get a  
baring on where states' health literacy initiatives are is the "Plain  
Language and Health Literacy Resources Guide." This guide has a  
section of Government Resources listing among many the:

-State Official's Guide to Health Literacy

-Sample Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy to be used for  
national, state, county, and community health organizations committed  
to improving health literacy.

The Ohio, Washington State, Iowa and many other health literacy  
initiatives and tools created by and for states.

To download the survey and the resource guide for free, please go to www.HealthLiteracyInnovations.com

Aracely Rosales
Health Literacy Innovations
Improving Health Communication One Word at a Time





On Oct 28, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Julie McKinney wrote:


> Hi Everyone,

>

> Well, it's been a very chatty October for us so far! (Lots of good

> stuff!) And things have quieted enough for me to post a Wednesday

> Question without clogging your mailboxes too much.

>

> Many states have one or more health literacy activities going on, in

> varying degrees of scope. But health literacy does not have any

> overseeing organization to organize and share the work within each  

> state

> and among states. The adult literacy field has state directors, and

> there is a department of public health in each state, along with many

> other state-organized agencies that interact in various ways with  

> health

> literacy.

>

> So my question is: If some kind of state organization were to help

> coordinate the health literacy activities in each state and share with

> other states, what kind of structure and support activities would be

> helpful? I'm going to leave it very open, and would love to hear any

> comments.

>

> All the best,

> Julie

>

> Julie McKinney

> Health Literacy List Moderator

> World Education

> jmckinney at worlded.org

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