Health Literacy Symposium: Picking Up Where the MLA Satellite Teleconference Left Off
PSRML is sponsoring this Health Literacy Symposium immediately before the Joint Meeting of the NCNMLG, MLGSCA, and PNC Chapters of the Medical Library Association. More information is available online at http://ncnmlg.stanford.edu/calendar/jtmtg2004/symposium.html or by phone at 800-338-7657.
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Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 Location: Capitol Plaza Holiday Inn City: Sacramento, CA |
Why should you attend?
- Because 90 million Americans struggle to understand written health materials.
- Develop practical skills to become part of the solution to the Health Literacy problem.
Learn "next steps" in Health Literacy
What will you learn?
- How organizations and individuals are responding to the need for Health Literacy Initiatives.
- How you can respond to the need for increased language access, improved readability, and easy-to-read resources in health information.
Skills to serve Low Health Literate consumers
Who will be there?
- Experts in Readability Tools; Regulations, Standards, and Financial Impact; Cultural Considerations; and Non-print Resources.
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Joyce Backus (National Library of Medicine)
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Christine Wilson Owens (Ethnomed) Audrey Riffenburgh (Riffenburgh & Associates) Beth Wescott (NN/LM Southeastern / Atlantic Region) Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi (Literacy Division, World Education) |
[Editor's Note: Please take a look at the previous articles in Latitudes by Heidi Sandstrom about health literacy and the symposium:
- Stake Your Claim to Health Literacy
- Health Literacy Literati!
- Health Information Literacy Comes to You!