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1. Adult Working Group's Cross-National Consultations on Health and Learning (2007)
Series: Adult Working Group
By: Sue Folinsbee, Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier, Hélène Grégoire, Allan Quigley
In June 2005, the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) held a Health and Learning Knowledge Centre (HLKC) consultation in Vancouver, British Columbia. At the consultation, participants agreed to establish various working groups to address the work of the HLKC. These working groups address life stages in health and learning and concentrate on settings, places, and communities where health and learning takes place. The Adult Working Group (AWG) is now one of 15 working groups addressing learning across the life span.
In 2006-2007, the AWG focused its research on adults with low literacy skills and immigrants and refugees. The AWG's work involves direct discussion with marginalized adults in the identified groups who could be directly helped through an effective knowledge exchange and translation with respect to health and learning. In this report, the AWG summarizes the outcomes of its consultations with immigrants, refugees and adults with literacy challenges and presents participants’ recommendations for strategies to address identified barriers. The working group also offers its recommendations for setting a knowledge agenda.
Added: 2008-12-15
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. Advancing Literacy in Canada: An Urgent Call to Action (2003)
By: Movement for Canadian Literacy
Recommendations for the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance
Added: 2003-10-09
4. At Risk: A Socio-economic Analysis of Health and Literacy Among Seniors (1998)
Series: The Monograph Series
By: W. Craig Roberts, Gail Fawcett
More and more research demonstrates that social, demographic and economic factors and practices affect the health of a population. However, much less is known about literacy skills and practices among those with higher health risks. Understanding these relationships is important, since weak literacy skills may impede good health care practices and healthy lifestyle decisions. Literacy can therefore be considered an important policy issue for health promotion: enhancing literacy can help to achieve health promotion goals, and understanding literacy practices and patterns can assist in more effectively directing health messages to target populations.
Using Canadian data from the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), this research paper compares the health-related characteristics of seniors with their literacy skills and practices. The findings support the view that literacy skills and practices may serve as "barriers" in the attainment of good health.
This highlights paper is a summary from the fifth in a series of monographs using data from the IALS. For more information, contact : Nancy Darcovich, Statistics Canada, at (613) 951-4585. The document is also available on the National Literacy Secretariat Website at : http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/nls/ials/atrisk/cover.htm (98.12.29)
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Added: 1998-01-01
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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. Breaking the Cycle of Violence (2003)
Resources for Literacy Workers
By: Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy
This book is a resource for literacy workers. One of its focus is on the challenges of people having limited literacy skills when they attempt to access counselling services. It also includes information for workers who may be working with victims of abuse and violence.
Added: 2005-11-23
7. Building the Right Partnerships (2004)
By: Peter Calamai
Peter Calamai addressed the Second Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health on October 19, 2004 in Ottawa. In his address, he discussed adult literacy, including literacy levels Canada, literacy and health relationships and the importance of forging partnerships between the public health field and the literacy movement.
Added: 2004-11-26
8. 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
9. Canadian Graduate Student Workshop on Literacy and Health Research (2004)
Report
By: Irving Rootman, Darryl Quantz
This is a report on a national workshop that took place before the Second National Literacy and Health Conference in Ottawa. Canadian graduate students were invited to apply to attend the workshop and conference and 22 graduate students from across Canada were accepted.
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Added: 2005-09-23
10. The Captain's Log: Charting the Course for Literacy and Health in the New Millennium (2001)
First Canadian Conference on Literacy and Health
By: Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), National Literacy and Health Program (NLHP)
In partnership with 26 national health associations, the Canadian Public Health Association raises awareness about the links between literacy and health among health professionals. Specifically, over the past nine years, CPHA's National Literacy and Health Program (NLHP) has promoted plain language health information and clear verbal communication in the health profession throughout Canada.
The NLHP has undertaken numerous projects in the following are as:
• seniors' prescription medication use
• access to health services and health information
• poor health communication and its impact on patients' informed consent and health professional liability
• hard-to-use forms that undermine the independence and wellbeing of low-literacy health consumers
• health among low-literacy youth
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Added: 2006-06-23
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