[CALIBK12] Reminder of Infopeople's webinar: Understanding Health Literacy

[Linda Rodenspiel]

A reminder of the next Infopeople webinar.  Please let your friends and
colleagues know about this event!

Title:  Understanding Health Literacy: Why It Is So Important and What
Librarians Can Do to Help  - Session #6 of the Health e-Shows Series

Date and time: August 14, 2008, 12pm - 1pm

This webinar will last approximately an hour. There is no charge for this
Infopeople webinar.  Pre-registration is not required.

For more information and to participate in the August 14 webinar, go to
http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/244/index.html 

According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, more than a third of
adult Americans have trouble understanding basic medical information. Health
literacy is the notion that a person is able to obtain, understand, and act
on information provided about a health topic or medication. Low or limited
health literacy can result in a patient's misunderstanding of a diagnosis or
treatment options, medication errors, or poor health outcomes in general. 

Providing quality health information is not enough. The ability to read -
and understand - is necessary in order to make decisions and take action.
This webinar will examine the related issues of literacy and health literacy
and how it relates to health outcomes for millions of Americans. Several
eye-opening examples will demonstrate how low literacy impacts the
healthcare of actual patients. Attendees will learn strategies for finding
appropriate, understandable health information, the meaning of
"easy-to-read" designations, and resources for helping users communicate
better with their healthcare providers. The session will conclude with ideas
for programming and partnerships to benefit your community. The webinar
content will be useful for public and hospital librarians and staff and
anyone who provides health information to members of the public. 

Speaker:  Kelli Ham. Kelli has over twelve years of experience working in
corporate, public and biomedical libraries. Since May 2005, Kelli has been
the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of
Medicine (NN/LM), Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), based at the UCLA Louise
M. Darling Biomedical Library. She is responsible for planning and
coordinating consumer health programs and activities for public libraries
and community-based organizations in the Region. Outreach activities focus
on meeting the health information needs of the diverse population groups in
the Pacific Southwest Region.

 

Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webinars to anyone in the
California library community.  If you are outside California, please do not
view the live event.

 

However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the
webinar.  Check our archive listing at:

 

http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived 

 

Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list.

 

Webinar:  Understanding Health Literacy: Why It Is So Important and What
Librarians Can Do to Help

Date: August 14, 2008

Time:  12pm - 1pm

Speaker: Kelli Ham

 

 

 

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