Can — and Should — We Trust Large Language Models for Health Literacy? An Artificial Intelligence Practitioner’s Perspective on Trustworthiness and Responsibility, Part 1 By Temese Szalai | November 28, 2023 Read more in the series: Part 2 | How Reliable Are LLMs for Health Literacy...
Improving Organizational Health Literacy: A Systemic Approach for Fighting Workplace Burnout By Somkene Igboanugo , MD, MSc, PhD Burnout among healthcare practitioners (HCPs) is a significant issue within healthcare. Current trends show that HCP burnout has worsened...
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...
Celebrating Health Literacy Month: 7 Ways to Raise Awareness by Julie McKinney , What is Health Literacy Month? Every October for the past 24 years, we’ve been celebrating Health Literacy Month ! Maybe it doesn’t come with pumpkins, fireworks, dancing, or gift-giving...but it’s an...
Creating Effective Patient Education Materials by Tiffany Vo , MPH, CHES It’s typical for healthcare professionals to create patient education materials. This means that most people making these items are nurses, doctors, administrators, or health educators. These individuals are often...
Infodemic Management: Closing the Information Literacy Skills Gap by Renata Mares , MIPH, BSN, BAKin, WHO IM On May 5, 2023 , the head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) “declared ‘with great hope’ an end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency, stressing that it does not...
How CHWs Improve Equity Through Health Literacy By Teresa Wagner , DrPH, MS, CPH, RD/LD, CPPS, CHWI, DipACLM, CHWC Community health workers (CHWs) bridge gaps in healthcare that lead to health disparities and help people navigate disconnected healthcare systems that marginalize...
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...