Numbers are common in all types of health communication, including medicine doses, reading a glucometer, or using a nutrition label to calculate calories from fat. But they can also be confusing.
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Patient Safety Relies on Clear Communication
Patient safety is an ongoing priority for healthcare providers and administrators, but patients and families are also vital to this effort. For example, hospital staff can follow protocols to prevent poor outcomes for sepsis, but if patients and families also know what to look for, they can serve as ongoing monitors and become confident and helpful reporters.
Look Through the Health Literacy Lens
A perspective from Jennifer Gan, MBA, Center for Health Literacy affiliate faculty member and former instructor
With over 15 years in clinical and educational research, I have seen firsthand the importance of clear communication. While consenting Spanish speakers for studies in my prior work in neuropsychiatric research, I did my best to translate medical and pharmaceutical details into understandable terms, but looking back, I wish I had known more about health literacy and plain language.
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Take a Bow, Health Literacy! You Rocked 2021!
From all of us at the UAMS Center for Health Literacy, Happy New Year! As we welcome 2022, we celebrate some national trends that excited us last year and renew our commitment to you and our mission for 2022.
Happy Holidays
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Celebrate Health Literacy Month!
October is Health Literacy Month—a time we promote practices and policies that enable patients to easily understand health information and use it to make decisions about their health.
Check Out Our New Health Education Module
The UAMS Center for Health Literacy is pleased to announce the launch of a new, free, online health education module: “How to L.I.F.T. Your Spirits During COVID-19 and Other Hard Times.” This interactive module helps adults and teens recognize ways the pandemic might be impacting their emotional wellness and offers practical tips to address those challenges.
You Keep Saying That Word! Medication
In our series, “You Keep Saying That Word!,” we talk about words that you likely see or hear often, but that we don’t normally use when writing for patients and the public.
Taking a Closer Look at the New Health Literacy Definitions and What They Mean for You
In December 2020, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion was busy rolling out the new Healthy People 2030 objectives.
COVID-19 Vaccine Community Workshops
For many months now, we have all been keeping our distance from others and washing our hands (a lot!). And, while it has helped, it has not been enough to stop the spread of COVID-19.