Center for Health Literacy Promotion - Action research for effective use of health info & services
Mission
 
The Center for Health Literacy Promotion is a research organization dedicated to enabling adults to use health information and services in ways that promote health.

  • We lead action research, data sharing, and analyses that support innovative and collaborative public health and clinical efforts to promote functional health literacy.

  • We develop, test, publish and continuously improve health education content, materials and curricula for our programs and for clients.

  • We provide and technical assistance for health literacy promotion.












What's New
From the 2012 Health Literacy Annual Research Conference Sandra Smith's presentation on Maternal Health Literacy Child Development and Modern Lifestyle Diseases.

From the 2011 Health Literacy Annual Research Conference Sandra Smith 's presentation on Health Literacy and Depression in the context of Home Visitation. 
  
From the 2010 Health Literacy Annual Research Conference Sandra Smith's presentation Evaluation of a Health Promotion Model Health Literacy Intervention.

Download of the week:
This project pilot tested methods to evaluate the suitability of health education materials adapted from English source documents to serve non-English learners.

Featured Content:
National Library of Medicine Webinar

Engaging Differences in Healthcare
Sandra Smith October 2006
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Worldwide Universities Network - Health Literacy –– Preventing illness, promoting health.
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Quality Innovation:  Our intervention to promote health literacy through home visitation profiled at AHRQ Innovation Exchange. Beginnings Guides: a tool to improve quality and reduce disparities. Innovation Profile: Reflective Approach to Improve Health Literacy 

At the first Annual Research Meeting at the University of Washington Tower Sandra Smith presented a scientific poster on preliminary results of a study on the impacts of maternal depression on mothers’ health literacy in the context of home visitation.  To view the poster click here.

CHLP is a member of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine
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Health plans need culturally and linguistically appropriate materials for non-English speaking patients. From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Click here to read more.

Medline Plus-Health Information from the National Library of Medicine

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