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1. Adult Education Part II (1997)
By: Kay S. Peavey
Supplement to Adult Education Resource Guide and Learning Standards (q.v.). A collection of peer-reviewed and peer-selected instructional strategies incorporating the best practices of New York's adult educators. Lessons cover drama, map reading, sequencing and memory, a mock World Peace Summit, reading, HIV education, and politics.
Added: 1997-01-01
2. Adult Working Group's Cross-National Consultations on Health and Learning - Final Report on Adults with HIV / AIDS (2008)
Series: Adult Working Group
By: Sue Folinsbee, Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier, Hélène Grégoire, Allan Quigley
The Adult Working Group is one of fifteen working groups within the Health and Learning Knowledge Centre (HLKC). The mandate of each working group is to build a knowledge agenda related to health and learning for the Canadian Council on Learning under whose auspices the HLKC was established. The Adult Working Group has focused its research on the health and learning of several different adult groups. This report addresses the health and learning of adults living with HIV / AIDS.
In its discussions with adults living with HIV / AIDS, the Working Group sought to identify themes, gaps, and needs related to health and learning as experienced by these adults. Ultimately, the group hopes their findings will lead to a greater understanding of the relationship between health and learning, and to initiatives to improve the health status of adults living with HIV/AIDS across Canada.
This report is organized into the following chapters:
- Introduction
- Consultation methodology
- Consultation outcomes
- Participants’ recommendations for strategies to address identified barriers
- Adult working group recommendations for setting a knowledge agenda
- Summary statement
Added: 2008-11-26
3. Adults Living with Limited Literacy and Chronic Illness: Patient Education Experiences (2010)
Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 4(1),24-33
By: Judy King, Maurice C. Taylor
This study investigates how Canadians with limited literacy skills make sense of their patient-education experiences. The authors cite a Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) study indicating that 60 per cent of Canadians don’t have sufficient skills to manage their health and their health-care needs. That can mean difficulty in taking medications correctly or using health services effectively.
The authors note that research on the link between literacy and health has tended to focus on policy issues, program evaluation, and assessment tools. Patient education studies have centered on improving the readability of materials and increasing the awareness of literacy issues among health-care professionals. The authors instead sought to investigate the meaning of patient education experiences for adults with limited literacy and chronic illness and to ask how these patient experiences affected these adults and what types of barriers they encountered.
The authors divide their findings into five themes: roles and relationships; language and health-care interactions; living between worlds; mismatched expectations; and powerlessness. They also evaluate their findings through the lenses of adult learning theories and discuss the implications of their findings for all parties.
The authors provide a literature review and outline their research methodology.
Added: 2010-04-14
4. Baby and Me - 2nd edition (2006)
Weekly Pregnancy Guide and Diary
By: Kimberly Onclin
This book provides helpful information on how to enjoy a healthy pregnancy, and is written in plain language that is easy to understand. They can also use the book to keep track of inportant information like doctors' appointments. It reminds the future moms to take vitamins, eat nutritious food and drink lots of water, juice and milk every day. Each section of the book explains what to expect for you and your growing baby. It also gives information on reading to their baby, even before it is born.
Added: 2002-03-13
5. Beyond words (2005)
The health-literacy connection
By: Doris E. Gillis
Have you ever left your doctor's office confused by the advice you were just given? At some time or other, most of us have felt limited in our knowledge and understanding of information related to our health.
Health literacy is a new concept that links our level of literacy with our ability to act upon health information and, ultimately, take control of our health. It builds upon the idea that both health and literacy are critical resources for everyday living.
Addressing health literacy means breaking down the barriers to health that low literacy creates
Added: 2006-07-24
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6. But I'm Not a Therapist: Literacy Work with Survivors of Abuse (1997)
By: Jenny Horsman
This article describes research that the author is working on, which will look at how current violence, or the aftermath of violence, can lead to various crises for women in literacy programs. The study will ask the following three questions:
1. What impacts of abuse are instructors (and other literacy workers) observing in literacy programs?
2. How can literacy workers address issues of violence in literacy programs?
3. What would "safety" mean in a literacy program and how is this concept understood by literacy workers?
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Added: 1997-03-30
7. Child Safety: a Healthy Start (2001)
The goal of this guide is to provide adult students with information about child rearing and prevention techniques to keep their children safe. It outlines preventive safety measures for home, car, day care, school, and bikes. It also discusses keeping children well through proper nutrition and vaccinations, and how to perform first aid if someone should become injured. Finally, the guide discusses the dangers of substance and sexual abuse.
Added: 2001-01-01
8. Clear Language and Organizational Change (2002)
Series: Plain Language Association International (PLAIN) - Fourth Biennial Conference
By: Jamie Lamothe
The goal of Public Health is to promote and protect health and prevent disease. Jamie explained how, at Halton, clear language is one component of a larger “Equal Access Strategy” that aims to remove barriers to public health services. Participants who attended this presentation learned about the energy needed to champion a clear language strategy in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment; and the rewards that accrue to an organization embracing change.
Added: 2003-04-02
9. Communicating Health Information: A Needs Assessment of Health Professionals in PEI (2008)
The research presented in this report is a needs assessment of health professionals communicating health information. It complements a previous research project carried out by the PEI Literacy Alliance, entitled "Health Information Needs of Adult Learners in PEI." The intent of this research is to create a snapshot of the issues facing health professionals when communicating with patients. For this project, researchers surveyed 99 health professionals and summarized their findings in this report, as well as in the charts in the attachments section.
As the findings indicate, many health professionals are unaware of the scope of the problem of low health literacy and few professionals have received training in how to communicate with patients with low literacy skills. This report includes a description of the project and key findings; a discussion of the findings; and suggestions from health professionals.
Added: 2008-05-23
10. Directory of Plain Language Health Information (1999)
By: Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), Association canadienne de santé publique (ACSP)
The purpose of the Directory is to help Canadian health professionals locate excellent examples of plain language health information on a variety of subjects. A list of 375 titles from 50 organizations is presented. As well, the Introduction tells readers how and why we chose the resources that are listed. The Appendices provide basic plain language and clear design tips.
Added: 1999-01-01
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