The Center for Literacy

Fall Institute 2008: Health and Literacy: Constructing Curriculum for Health-Care Providers

Documents and Presentations

Almost all the documents presented on this page are in PDF format.

Documents Provided to Participants

• Issues Identified by Attendees Before the Institute
• Definitions of Literacy and Health
• Presentation Summaries

Presentations

To see the presentations arranged in the order they appeared on the program, see Presentation Summaries

Canada

• Follow-up notes on Pain and Dementia Toolkit presentation by Cary Brown

• Literacy Specialist Work: Building Community Capacity and Changing Approaches by Elaine Cairns

• Community Engagement and Health Literacy: Lessons learned from the Smiling Project by Rachel Farahbakhsh

• Health Links Project: Health Literacy for First Nations and Metis Adults, by Audrey Gardner and Louise Crane

• Health Literacy - Curricula and Measures by Andrew Pleasant

• Making a case to health providers -- Imagine: Lire/Read: A pilot literacy promotion project in 4 pediatric clinics, by Linda Shohet

United Kingdom

• Health Literacy Development in England, by Dennis Carrington

• Health literacy: Constructing curriculum for health care providers, Promising practice from the UK, by Jan Novitzky

• Constructing a Health Literacy Curriculum: a UK Perspective, by Jan Novitzky 

• Stephen's Story, read out at the Institute by Jan Novitzky

United States

• "Health Literacy” & Clear Communication: Assessing Students’ Clinical Skills Using Standardized Patients by Cliff Coleman
   
• How Can Adult Literacy Teachers and Students Help Health Care Providers? by Julie McKinney