What It’s Like To Be a Health Literacy Designer Gilberto Velazquez, BFA, is a creative/art director and a health literacy designer. He’s the founder of GV CERV Communications , a digital design and creative development studio. He has published several Medium articles on such topics...
How Occupational Therapists Can Promote Health Literacy By Barbara Fahmy, MS, OTR, MPA Although my training and education as an occupational therapist (OT) included the concept of health literacy as an essential element of therapeutic intervention, the realization of just how...
Why Advancing Health Literacy Equals Better Public Health by Suzanne Manneh, MPH, I had never seen her so demoralized. My former client—I’ll call her Crystal—was indignantly, and understandably so, describing her recent emergency room encounter. It reinforced what my public...
Time to Refocus Our Efforts on Plain and Clear COVID-19 Messaging: Introducing the Clear Health Communication Collaborative (CHCC) by Michael Villaire , MSLM and Barbra Kingsley , Ph.D. The third anniversary of the onset of COVID-19 is approaching, and here in the United States...
Celebrating Health Literacy Month: 7 Ways to Raise Awareness by Julie McKinney , What is Health Literacy Month? Every October for the past 23 years, we’ve been celebrating Health Literacy Month ! Maybe it doesn’t come with pumpkins, fireworks, dancing, or gift-giving...but it’s an...
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October is Health Literacy Month by Helen Osborne, M.Ed., OTR/L October is Health Literacy Month. This annual event is a time when organizations and individuals worldwide raise awareness about the importance of understandable health information. The idea behind Health...
Community Health Workers and Promotores/Promotoras – Bridging the Health Literacy Gap by Russell Bennett, MBA, CHIE Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of working with community health workers (CHWs), known in Spanish as “promotores” or “promotoras.” These workers play a critical...
IHA recognizes Juneteenth (Emancipation Day) as an Important Day By Marian Ryan, Ph.D., MA, MPH Juneteenth (Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Juneteenth Independence Day) President Joe Biden signed legislation on June 17, 2021, proclaiming Juneteenth (June 19) a federal paid...
A Conference to Support You as We Enter a New Epoch by Michael Villaire, MSLM On May 10-12, 2022, we’ll hold our 21 st annual IHA Health Literacy Conference . As you can see, we’ve been doing this for a long time! Over the years, we’ve provided information and training...
Digital Health Literacy: The New Normal by Michele Erikson, BA I was at an NBA game on Valentine’s Day when my stomach began to rumble — the hungry kind of rumble, which is far better than the other kind of stomach rumble. I can usually fix this with a stroll up to concessions and the...