Criminal-Legal Involved Women and Health Literacy This presentation will walk the audience through how empirical research informed a health literacy construct for criminal-legal involved women; how that construct was applied in a jail-based cervical health intervention; then in a health...
Building a Health Literate Community to Achieve Health Equity: Insights, Lessons Learned, and Next Steps The importance of organizational health literacy is increasingly clear in the time of COVID-19 and widespread health disparities. It has been elevated by the new Healthy People 2030...
Health Literacy Solutions to Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake using Human-centered Design and Behavioral Science The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates that people of color, particularly Hispanic/Latine/a/o/x communities, are disproportionately affected by the disease, in both cases and...
Digital Health Literacy Intervention in Context – Challenges, Standards, Best Practice and Measures Diane Levin-Zamir Orkan Okan Gillian Rowlands Stephan Van den Broucke The importance of digital health literacy (DHL) for public health, healthcare, education and health policy is...
A Health Literacy Approach to Involve Family and Friends in Diabetes Prevention Rebecca Ledsky Family Health International 360 Lisa Tensuan Family Health International 360 Danielle Stahl Washington County Health Department Angela Deal, CHES Charles County Department of...
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...
Earn .5 CE Hour Speaker(s): Mercedes Harris, PharmD, MPH Founder & Pharmacist Five Loaves & Two Fish Healthy Teaching Kitchen Orlando, Florida, United States Philborne Barnum, Chef Culinary & Nutrition Director Five Loaves & Two Fish...
Earn .5 CE Hour Primary Speaker(s) Anne Hanford, MPH CHES Total Wellness Project Coordinator Urban Pathways New York, New York, United States Nancy Southwell, MSW Deputy Executive Director Urban Pathways New York, New York, United States ...
Poster Author(s) Umama Ali, LPN, BS, MBA Graduate Student Researcher Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas, United States Nikki Keene Woods, PhD, MPH, MA Associate Professor Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas, United States Amy Chesser, Ph.D. Associate Professor Wichita State...
Primary Poster Author Neida N. Ramos, N/A, n/a PhD student Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical Porto, Porto, Portugal Poster abstract : Health literacy is a determining factor for the health of the population and paramount in their ability to decide correctly on health...