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"Health Literacy: Tools for Improving Health Communications," Conference held May 30, 2007 at New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY Conference Virtual Tool Kit |
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1) American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Language access solutions report. |
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| Full Report: http://www.acog.org/acog_districts/dist9/2006LanguageAccessSolutionsReport.pdf Executive summary: http://www.acog.org/acog_districts/dist9/LEPExecutiveSummary.pdf |
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| 2) American Medical Association, Health Literacy Video. | ||
| http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/8035.html | ||
| 3) Del Guercio, Louis R.M. Multilingual manual for medical history-taking. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingston, 1972. | ||
| Not available online | ||
| 4) Institute of Medicine, Health literacy: a prescription to end confusion : free executive summary. | ||
| http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10883.html PDF copy: http://books.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/10883.pdf |
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| 5) Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, REALM Information at: | ||
| http://www.medicalhome.alabama.gov/applications/documentlibrary/2.1.5.3%20PtEd_REALM_Instr.pdf | ||
| 6) McKinney, Julie and Kurtz-Rossi, Sabrina, Family health and literacy. Boston, MA: World Education, 2006. | ||
| http://healthliteracy.worlded.org/docs/family/index.htm | ||
| 7) Medical Library Association, Health literacy resources. | ||
| http://www.mlanet.org/resources/healthlit/healthlit_resources.html | ||
| 8) Medical Library Association, Deciphering Medspeak. | ||
| http://www.mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/ | ||
| 9) National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus. | ||
| http://medlineplus.gov/ | ||
| 10) National Library of Medicine, Information Rx. | ||
| http://nnlm.gov/hip/infoRx/ | ||
| 11) Nurss, Joanne R., TOFHLA Information at: | ||
| http://education.gsu.edu/csal/TOFHLA.htm | ||
| 12) Pfizer, Ask Me 3 | ||
| http://www.askme3.org/ | ||
| 13) Rudd, Rima and Anderson, Jennie, The health literacy environment of hospitals and health centers. | ||
| http://www.ncsall.net/?id=1163 PDF copy: http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/teach/environ.pdf |
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| 14) Westchester Library System, firstfind.info | ||
| http://www.firstfind.info/ | ||
| Additional Conference Handouts and Resources | ||
| Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Questions are the Answer. | ||
| http://www.ahrq.gov/QuestionsAreTheAnswer | ||
| Joint Commission, Hospitals, language, and Culture: A Snapshot of the Nation. | ||
| http://www.jointcommission.org/PatientSafety/HLC/ | ||
| Joint Commission, "What Did the Doctor Say?:" Improving Health Literacy to Protect Patient Safety. | ||
| http://www.jointcommission.org/NewsRoom/PressKits/Health_Literacy/ | ||
| Pfizer, The Newest Vital Sign: A Health Literacy Assessment Tool | ||
| http://www.newestvitalsign.org/ | ||
| Funded by the National Library of Medicine under NLM Contract N01-LM-6-350 | Developed by D. Cunningham Updated 6/11/07, R. Smethurst |
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