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Promoting Health Literacy: What does that mean in 2020
Janet Ohene-Frempong
Promoting Health Literacy: What does that mean in 2020
Janet Ohene-Frempong
What is health literacy?
If you can't define it, you can't promote it
"The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions" (Ratzan and Parker 2004)
If you can't define it, you can't promote it
"The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions" (Ratzan and Parker 2004)
A simple (better?) way of explaining health literacy:
"Your ability to figure out what's needed for you, and others, to stay alive and as well as possible" (Ohene-Frempong)
#healthliteracy #MedTwitter
"Your ability to figure out what's needed for you, and others, to stay alive and as well as possible" (Ohene-Frempong)
#healthliteracy #MedTwitter
Health Inequities make it hard to stay alive and well
-Quality education
-Quality housing
-Safe environments
-Good jobs/Fair pay
-Personal transportation
-Healthy food
-Quality education
-Quality housing
-Safe environments
-Good jobs/Fair pay
-Personal transportation
-Healthy food
What makes it hard to live while Black:
-Driving while black
-Reaching for your license/reg
-Walking through a white neighborhood
-Sleeping in your own house
-Bird watching
-Paying with a $20 bill
-Driving while black
-Reaching for your license/reg
-Walking through a white neighborhood
-Sleeping in your own house
-Bird watching
-Paying with a $20 bill
Surviving everyday life requires a good degree of health literacy
Surviving in the age of COVID-19 and Racial Turmoil requires health literacy on steroids
Surviving in the age of COVID-19 and Racial Turmoil requires health literacy on steroids
Let's all stan Dr. Anthony Fauci
Fundamental Literacy
Refers to the skills and strategies involved in reading, speaking, writing, and numeracy
Maybe someone not getting it has more to do with the author not knowing how to write it, not the reader's comprehension level
Refers to the skills and strategies involved in reading, speaking, writing, and numeracy
Maybe someone not getting it has more to do with the author not knowing how to write it, not the reader's comprehension level
Written materials are highly useful:
-time, cost, convenience for large volumes of info
-accessible for those without internet
-useful as back-up to verbal information
-useful as back-up to videos and podcasts
-time, cost, convenience for large volumes of info
-accessible for those without internet
-useful as back-up to verbal information
-useful as back-up to videos and podcasts
