This week I was reading a thread on the IHA Health Literacy Discussion List and once again, contributors were talking about what tools they would use to assess a person’s health literacy in clinical settings. Should it be the NVS, TOFHLA, REALM and BRIEF. My reaction, and thankfully some of the contributors as well, was – OH […]
This is an image of the Clark County Washington Public Health website https://www.clark.wa.gov/public-health/measles-investigation Language Acting Badly Clark County Public Health is urging anyone who has been exposed and believes they have symptoms of measles to call their health care provider prior to visiting the medical office to make a plan that avoids exposing others in the waiting room. […]
I’m still fretting over the obtuse messages of a nutrition campaign we saw in E. Harlem recently. E. Harlem has high rates of obesity, other chronic diseases and poverty and poor access to good food. So the campaign is designed and targeted to reach the folks who live here. In the last post I whined […]
Another installment of …… Language Acting Badly My friend Joslyn snapped this Ad in Harlem yesterday and sent it to me with the question “Isn’t this strange?” It was late. I was tired. YES it was strange. I couldn’t make sense of it. This morning I checked out the AHA website attached to the […]
I received an email recently Helen Seagle, Clinical Nutrition Manager, Children’s Hospital Colorado in which she raises a question that’s really got me thinking. Helen questions how we all liberally use the term “healthy” in kids material. Healthy food, healthy choices, health snacks….. She asks – “does healthiness equal “nutritiousness”? Unless something is toxic can’t […]
Unfortunately just about every scientist, public health expert and media source. Problem with referring to Zika as “mosquito-borne” is: 1. linguistically complex – a highly deleted, passive form-one of the hardest grammar constructions for people to make sense of, especially if less educated. A mosquito […]
Here are 5 of them: 1.Circular Definition 2.Definition uses overly complex medical/science words/concepts 3.Definition uses overly complex sentence structure 4.Recursive Definition 5. Non–definition Definition Interested? Check out 2 new Lessons at the Health Literacy Lab. Reminder I’m blogging at https://healthliteracylab.com/blog/ facebook.com/healthliteracylab @czarc
Time to turn our attention to what people are doing with health information. The HealthLiteracyLab has a video . Health Literacy is Deep and Wide
A friend from Down Under responded to my hand wringing about the unnecessary difficulty of the CDC’s explanation of Ebola on its website. She kindly shared an ABC News (AU) piece that does a far better job explaining some of the basic information about Ebola to the public. Above visual “Ebola Transmission Visual” The […]
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