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April Webinar: Navigating Your Health Narrative. Health Literacy: Twitter Thoughts and Resources. Add #healthlit chats to your Twitter chat schedule! Yesterday, Health Literacy Missouri (@HealthLitMo) kicked off the first of a monthly series of chats on health literacy on Twitter (#healthlit). The chats are scheduled on the 3rd of every month, so if you missed yesterday’s, don’t worry, you can participate on March 3 (2;30 Central, right now). Healthy People 2020 and health literacy The first chat included Linda Harris, PhD, as guest speaker. Some of the discussion questions raised during the chat included: What are you doing to address the objectives in the Health Communication and Health Information Technology section of Healthy People 2020?

You’ll be able to find the transcript of the chat here (the page may take a bit of time to load) and Health Literacy Missouri will be blogging about it in detail in about a week, but I wanted to highlight some of my personal takeaways. Health literacy’s not just for public health mavens! Resources to help you learn more about health literacy. Healthcare Tweet Chats. Wiley-Blackwell Launches New Mobile Applications for Select Health Publications.

Hoboken, NJ, December 16, 2010—Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is launching new mobile applications for selected health science journals, accessible via iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Symbian, PalmOS, and WAP devices. The applications, which will be freely available, will allow for the mobile delivery of title and abstract listings of articles with a feature that will enable users to create a “reading list” of desired full-text articles, available from the user’s desktop computer through Wiley Online Library. The apps will provide the full-text of a selection of articles, and mobile content will be pushed to the mobile application as it is added to Wiley Online Library. Additional features include listings of upcoming events, society news, and publication information.

Easily navigable, the applications present an optimized reading experience from various mobile devices. [snip] Source And Links. The Health Care Blog: Will Avatars, Robots, and Video Games Replace Doctors? By KENT BOTTLES, MD I have never met Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar of Partners HealthCare’s Center for Connected Health, Susannah Fox of Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, or Professor Andy Clark of Edinburgh University face to face in the real world. And yet they have all profoundly changed the way I think about health care’s most vexing problem: how are we going to take care of all these Baby Boomers who are starting to retire and get sick?

Kvedar nicely summarizes this supply and demand problem on one slide in a talk I watched on YouTube; he notes that there are currently 24 million Americans with diabetes, and the rate is increasing 8% every year. I had never heard of Kvedar or the Center for Connected Health until I saw a Fox twitter link to her blog post about robots, enchanted objects, and networks. Can technology really solve the supply and demand problem in American health care?

“In real life, friendship involves risk. Filed Under: Uncategorized. Toys May Shape Language Development. Toddlers with differently shaped objects learned new words more quickly, study found. FRIDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Toddlers who play with different-shaped objects learn new words twice as fast as those who play with objects that have similar shapes, a new study finds. University of Iowa researchers worked with 16 children who were 18 months old and knew about 17 object names at the start of the study. Some children were taught the names of objects by playing with toys that were nearly identical, while others played with toys that were significantly different. One month after this training, the children who played with diverse objects were learning an average of nearly 10 new words per week, compared with four words for the other children. Learning four words per week is typical for children that age who haven't received any special training.

Further research is needed to pinpoint why the children who played with diverse objects learned new words more quickly, said the researchers. My HealtheVet. Back to Home page A New Model of Health Care: Patient Aligned Care Teams Contributed by Douglas Walker You are probably hearing how VA is changing to a new model of health care delivery. You may be wondering what this is all about and why VA is changing. After all, VA is one of the leaders in primary care and has accomplished a lot over the last fifteen years. What is a Patient Aligned Care Team? With Patient Aligned Care Teams, VA is embracing what is known as the patient centered medical home model. What Does Patient Aligned Care Team Mean for You? The biggest change is that your health care is now delivered by a team that includes you, the Veteran.

There is also a change in how your care is provided. Our goal is to help you stay healthy. Veterans will benefit from less fragmented care. Learn More Talk With Your Healthcare Provider (My HealtheVet) Video games get kids to eat more veg, fruit: study. After being fingered as a key cause of the rising rate of US childhood obesity, video games got a reprieve Tuesday as a new study showed they can be used to encourage kids to eat healthier foods. The study, conducted in the United States, where nearly one in five six- to 19-year-olds is obese, found that children who played certain "serious" video games -- not the blockbuster blood-and-guts ones like "Black Ops" -- increased the amount of fruit and vegetables they ate per day by around one serving. That is a useful step towards fighting childhood flab because "increased fruit and vegetable intakes have been associated with decreased risk of obesity," says the study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

"Diab and Nanoswarm were designed as epic video game adventures, comparable to commercial quality video games. These games incorporate a broad diversity of behavior change procedures woven in and around engrossing stories," he said. Stem cell-based spray holds promise for healing wounds - Related Stories - AdvaMed SmartBrief. Skip to main content Browse All Briefs by Topic Stem cell-based spray holds promise for healing wounds Forward to a friend 11/29/2010 | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), The Physicians at the University of Utah have combined thrombin and calcium with platelets and progenitor cells derived from patients to develop a topical spray designed to heal wounds and burns.

The treatment, which takes about 15 minutes to apply, is being tested by university researchers in patients with burns and chronic wounds. View Full Article in: Deseret News (Salt Lake City), The Health Care | Life Sciences & Technology Published in Brief: AdvaMed SmartBrief SmartBrief Job Listings for Health Care View More Job Openings ©2014 SmartBrief. Default. Index. » Jump to Tools Medical care is complicated, and many people struggle with understanding medications, self care, instructions, and followup plans.

The way we organize our practice and communicate with patients can help to minimize confusion and lead to better health outcomes. This toolkit is designed to help practices take a systematic approach to reducing the complexity of medical care and ensure that patients can succeed in the health care environment. Health Literacy Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic information and services needed to make appropriate decisions about their health. Seeking medical care, taking medications correctly, and following prescribed treatments requires that people understand how to access and apply health information. The Indian Health Service White Paper on Health Literacy provides information on health literacy as it relates to American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Back To Top. Health communications. Health Literacy. Share Add this to... Favorites Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Google Bookmarks Yahoo MyWeb (formerly Unified Health Communication – learn more about the name change ) is free, on-line, go-at-your-own-pace training that has helped more than 4,000 health care professionals and students improve patient-provider communication. Take the course any time, night or day, to improve your ability to communicate with patients and overcome barriers that can keep patients from taking their medications according to your instructions, going to the emergency room when they would be better served in primary care or otherwise preventing them from getting the full benefit of the quality care you provide.

Medically underserved patients may have particular difficulty communicating with their health care providers. And deal sensitively with cultural differences that affect the way patients navigate the health care system, and effectively use tools that don’t rely on the written or spoken word. (Course ID 1010510) Literatur40. Health Literacy: Strategies for Avoiding Communication Breakdown - Cancer Network. February 16, 2010 | Oncology Nursing At least half of all Americans are at risk for consequences resulting from low health literacy (HL).[1] These patients have poorer health outcomes and increased medical costs, and in some instances have experienced medical errors caused by communication breakdowns.[2–4] Efforts to mitigate the effects of low HL have been promoted by organizations including the Joint Commission[5] as well as via initiatives such as Healthy People 2010.[6] Patients with cancer are particularly vulnerable to the effects of low HL, owing to the complicated treatment regimens they receive.

Oncology nurses can help by identifying patients who may be at risk and implementing strategies that can be used to help patients understand the information they receive. HL is not simply the ability to read. Over the past decade, research has demonstrated the impact of low HL in the general population with alarming results. Who Is at Risk? Health Literacy: New Field, New Opportunities. ABE/ASE Lesson Plans. Dr Joseph F Smith Medical Library Health Literacy Resources Heart Health ESL Curriculum Resource 3rd edition of the Heart Health ESL Curriculum Resource To equip adult ESL instructors with the knowledge and resources to promote heart healthy lifestyle behaviours among ESL learners. The information and activities in this resource is intended to achieve the following objectives: 1. A healthy heart. 2. 3. 4. . • Be physically active. • Eat in a healthy way. • Avoid tobacco smoke. • Maintain a healthy blood pressure. • Find healthy ways to manage your stress.

What is Health Literacy, You Tube VIdeo This 7-minute you tube video gives a nice snapshot of health literacy: what it is, how it hurts people and the economy of the health care system, AND how one program is working address the issue. Health Literacy Missouri Healthy Roads Media The Educator’s Reference Desk. Health Literacy Curricula - A collection. Epatientblogs - home. Health Reform Resource. Health Literacy Video - AMA Foundation. Included as part of its Health Literacy Kits, the AMA Foundation has created informational and instructional videos with case studies. The 2001 video, "Low health literacy: You can't tell by looking," features actual physicians and office staff interacting with real patients challenged by low health literacy. The 2007 video, "Health literacy and patient safety: Help patients understand," gives more detailed techiques and specific steps for physicians and their staff on helping patients with limited health literacy.

Physicians rated the AMA Foundation’s Health Literacy video as the most effective tool in raising awareness and sparking discussion about patients’ low health literacy skills. Both videos can be viewed in their entirety below. The links below are hosted by the Kansas University Web site and take you off of the AMA Foundation Web site. The AMA Foundation is grateful to Kansas University for partnering with us in our efforts. " (YouTube) " (Kansas University server) SMS Birth Registration: People, Ideas And Culture Responds To PSFK Future Of Health Report. SMS Birth Registration In many developing nations, newborn babies are in a bit of a blind spot. Difficulties in registering births both for the parents and the government make it hard to keep check of the population. But with the insight that people have access to mobile phones and networks (Africa, for example), we’ve developed a service that allows the parents to register the birth of a child via their cellphone, and that also rewards them for doing so.

Parents use their phones and simply text: “Family Name” to [phone number] and a birth certificate will be created. PSFK’s Future of Health Report shines a light on innovation occurring within the health and wellness space around the world. In an effort to start this exciting conversation, PSFK challenged advertising and design agencies from around the world to react to the Future of Health report. The following ideas are from People, Ideas & Culture .

PSFK Future Of Health Report.