Health Literacy and Teaching Patients with Jean Shipman

Teaching In Medicine

What is health literacy and why is it important to consider when teaching patients? How can we effectively educate and communicate with patients? How is Covid-19 impacting health literacy? Check out my interview with Ms. Jean Shipman, a librarian emerita and former President of the Medical Library Association.

Additional Resources:

- Health Literacy in Action Conference https://hlia-harcconf.org/

- North Carolina Program for Health Literacy. (2014). The teach-back method. Retrieved from http://www.nchealthliteracy.org/toolkit/tool5.pdf

- UNC-CH Assessment tool list: https://hsl.lib.unc.edu/health-literacy/assessing-health-literacy/

- HHS Plain Language checklists - https://www.plainlanguage.gov/resources/checklists/

- CDC - Everyday Words for Public Health Communication https://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/everydaywords/

- The Health Literacy Data Map, http://healthliteracymap.unc.edu/

- Searchable map of health literacy estimates for the entire United States http://bit.ly/271301r.

- Health Literacy Importance(from U.S. Dept. Health & Human Services) https://health.gov/news/201912/hhs-leaders-highlight-importance-health-literacy

- Health Literacy Online (from health.gov) at http://health.gov/healthliteracyonline/ Works through an online form to create content.

- Health Literacy Studies: Assessing Materials (Harvard School of Public Health) at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/assessing-and-developing-materials/

- Health Literacy Studies at Harvard: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/

- CE health literacy modules for physicians, nurses, therapists, counselors, and all health practitioners providing direct or indirect patient care: https://healthliteracy.osu.edu/modules