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<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="5">I am pleased to announce a guest speaker discussion next week on the Health & Literacy Discussion List! </font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="5"><strong>What:</strong> Using pictures in low literacy health education materials.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="5"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><strong>When:</strong> January 8-12, 2007</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="5"><strong>Who:</strong> Guest speakers are Len and Ceci Doak and Dr. Peter Houts, health literacy researchers and advocates.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="5"><strong>Where:</strong> Online on the Health & Literacy Discussion List </font></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="5"><strong>Why:</strong> Members on this list have shown much interest in creating health education materials appropriate for patients with low literacy skills, and in the use of pictures to enhance these materials.
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="5">Len and Ceci Doak and Dr. Peter Houts have just published an article called <span style="COLOR: #363636; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">
"<em>The role of pictures in improving health communication: A review of research on attention, comprehension, recall, and adherence</em>."</span> in the journal "Patient Education and Counseling", and the Doaks are authors of "Teaching Patients With Low Literacy Skills", which describes some of the earliest health literacy research, along with practical
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>techniques for communicating clearly with patients.</font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="5">Recommended reading: </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="5">Teaching Patients With Low Literacy Skills</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/doak.html"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#800080" size="5">http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/doak.html</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="5"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="COLOR: #363636; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">"The role of pictures in improving health communication: A review of research on attention, comprehension, recall, and adherence." Peter S. Houts, Cecilia C. Doak, Leonard G. Doak, Matthew J. Loscalzo.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="5"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="COLOR: #363636; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><em>Patient Education and Counseling</em>. </span><span style="COLOR: red; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: #363636; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><font size="5"><font face="Comic Sans MS">This is a peer reviewed article assessing the effects of pictures on health communications. The article presents summarized findings from reviews of more than 500 journal articles and other publications on this subject. Unfortunately, it is not available online but can be found in the journal. The results of this article will be shared during the discussion.
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