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Health literacy from A to Z : practical ways to communicate your health message / Helen Osborne.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lake Placid, NY : Aviva Publishing, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 3rd editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 262 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781636181769
  • 1636181767
Other title:
  • Practical ways to communicate your health message
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 613/.071 23/eng/20220719
LOC classification:
  • RA440 .O825 2022eb
NLM classification:
  • WA 590
Online resources:
Contents:
An introduction to this book -- About health literacy -- Assessment tools for health literacy -- Assessment tools for readability -- Business side of health literacy -- Community connections -- Confirm understanding: teach-back and feedback -- Continuum of care -- Decisions about treatment, end-of-life choices, or whether to participate in clinical trials -- Document design -- Ethics of simplicity -- Forms and other reading-to-do documents -- General public: traditional media -- General public: public health concerns -- Health equity in the context of health literacy -- Humor and healing -- Interpreters and translators -- Jargon, acronyms, and other troublesome words -- Know your audience: children and youth -- Know your audience: culture and language -- Know your audience: emotions, cognition, and behavioral health -- Know your audience: hearing loss -- Know your audience: literacy -- Know your audience: older adults -- Know your audience: vision problems -- Learning and teaching -- Listening and speaking -- Metaphors, similes, and analogies -- Numeracy: numbers and data -- Organizations: health literacy across programs, companies, communities, and countries -- Patient and family perspective -- Plain language -- Question-asking -- Regulatory and legal language -- Stories -- Technology: e-health -- Technology: online teaching and video games -- Technology: social media and podcasts -- Universal design -- Visuals -- Writing for the web -- X-tras -- You: compassion, empathy, and humanity -- Zest and pizzazz.
Summary: "Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message, Third Edition is written for professionals, students, and others who care a lot about clearly communicating health messages. It also is for people who have multiple projects competing for time and attention. In other words, this book is written for you. Intended as an easy-to-use guide, this book is written in a way to inform and inspire you without being overwhelming"--Publisher's description.
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An introduction to this book -- About health literacy -- Assessment tools for health literacy -- Assessment tools for readability -- Business side of health literacy -- Community connections -- Confirm understanding: teach-back and feedback -- Continuum of care -- Decisions about treatment, end-of-life choices, or whether to participate in clinical trials -- Document design -- Ethics of simplicity -- Forms and other reading-to-do documents -- General public: traditional media -- General public: public health concerns -- Health equity in the context of health literacy -- Humor and healing -- Interpreters and translators -- Jargon, acronyms, and other troublesome words -- Know your audience: children and youth -- Know your audience: culture and language -- Know your audience: emotions, cognition, and behavioral health -- Know your audience: hearing loss -- Know your audience: literacy -- Know your audience: older adults -- Know your audience: vision problems -- Learning and teaching -- Listening and speaking -- Metaphors, similes, and analogies -- Numeracy: numbers and data -- Organizations: health literacy across programs, companies, communities, and countries -- Patient and family perspective -- Plain language -- Question-asking -- Regulatory and legal language -- Stories -- Technology: e-health -- Technology: online teaching and video games -- Technology: social media and podcasts -- Universal design -- Visuals -- Writing for the web -- X-tras -- You: compassion, empathy, and humanity -- Zest and pizzazz.

"Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message, Third Edition is written for professionals, students, and others who care a lot about clearly communicating health messages. It also is for people who have multiple projects competing for time and attention. In other words, this book is written for you. Intended as an easy-to-use guide, this book is written in a way to inform and inspire you without being overwhelming"--Publisher's description.

Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, February 15, 2023).

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