Heather Surrency, MPH
Greg Smith, MS
Florida Literacy Coalition
Literacy is an essential component of health equity and the basis of health literacy. Without language, reading comprehension, and numeracy skills, patients often struggle to understand and act on health recommendations. The Florida Health Literacy Initiative is an award-winning program that, over the last ten years, has provided health literacy instruction to more than 20,000 adult learners. This session will focus on the lessons the Florida Health Literacy Initiative learned, and will demonstrate how these experiences are relevant to health literacy practitioners in a variety of fields. We will also examine how adult education organizations can be valuable partners with health providers, health educators, and public health agencies.
Objectives:
-Identify key health literacy needs of adult learners and others with low literacy.
-Describe the components of an effective health literacy curriculum for patients with low literacy.
-List at least one educational strategy you can implement within your organization to improve patients’ skills, knowledge, or confidence.
Greg Smith, MS
Florida Literacy Coalition
Literacy is an essential component of health equity and the basis of health literacy. Without language, reading comprehension, and numeracy skills, patients often struggle to understand and act on health recommendations. The Florida Health Literacy Initiative is an award-winning program that, over the last ten years, has provided health literacy instruction to more than 20,000 adult learners. This session will focus on the lessons the Florida Health Literacy Initiative learned, and will demonstrate how these experiences are relevant to health literacy practitioners in a variety of fields. We will also examine how adult education organizations can be valuable partners with health providers, health educators, and public health agencies.
Objectives:
-Identify key health literacy needs of adult learners and others with low literacy.
-Describe the components of an effective health literacy curriculum for patients with low literacy.
-List at least one educational strategy you can implement within your organization to improve patients’ skills, knowledge, or confidence.