The Commonwealth Fund reports that nearly Half of Kentucky’s Medicaid Enrollees Don’t Know About the State’s Plans for a Work Requirement. Well it took me a while but I figured out where the work requirement is hiding on the Kentucky Health website. First #1 #2 Then you have to know to click on the middle […]
When it comes to informing the public about a toxic exposure like lead in drinking water, just about every kind of misstep can occur. Officials disguising facts or offering up alt facts, faulty water contamination tests, dueling experts and scientific uncertainty and plain and simple incompetence. Maybe there was a time in the US when […]
I personally can’t take credit for this one. But it was posted somewhere in the wide universe yesterday and I just couldn’t resist. Free plague would have been a real crowd pleaser. Now come on, we know you have one to share too.
Here’s an example of a fairly simple sentence that isn’t so simple unless you have the needed, underlying health literacy – health concept. Excerpt from Washington State Dept. of Health(2-17-19) If you have been exposed to measles and feel ill, stay home to help prevent the spread of the disease. Call your healthcare provider to […]
When Health Literacy Media informed me that I would be receiving this year’s Cecilia and Leonard Doak Health Literacy Champion Award, my first thought came in the form of a long ago memory – an image of listening to Ceci Doak sensitively speak about the lives of individuals who struggle to read and understand the […]
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 […]
NIH’s new Herbal App – the reading level is fine. The health literacy it requires – its “health literacy load” is still high. Can you name how many domains of health literacy are required to understand the following? My list of some of the fundamental health and science literacies*embedded in the statements: Medical studies yield […]
On Jan 15 Aaron E Carroll (NYT, Section, The Upshot) wrote a good article about why the public should get vaccinated against flu – Still Not Convinced You Need a Flu Shot? First, It’s Not All About You. While urging the public to do so is a perenniel pursuit, Carroll focuses on the role of herd […]
A story in the NYT today is interesting if you’re following the public’s understanding of Zika. First the headline – Case of Zika Virus, Likely Spread by Mosquito, Is Reported in Texas I can just hear someone saying : “But what’s the big deal? We already know mosquitos spread Zika” But it’s the central message […]
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