Conversation on Healthcare
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Topic: Community Health Literacy
Location: Old Dominion Coffee Company
Convened: 8/30/2009 11:45 am
Attendees and Affiliations:
Lyn Wright
Mike Trainum
Notes:
This session wasn’t announced at 9:30, so only two of us were there. Items discussed: * Health Literacy is the ability to process critical information effectively, not just read it. * Approximately 50% of the people in the USA do not have adequate health literacy skills. * Information on such topics as the new H1N1 influenza (swine flu) are thus “invisible” and ignored by approx. 50% of the population of Harrisonburg. This places these people and those around them at greater risk of contracting H1N1. * The Harrisonburg-Rockingham departments of Social Services and Health are aware of this issue, but have few options other than passing along the “complex” information they receive from federal agencies (CDC, etc)
Contact for More Information:
Life Access Technology (of Harrisonburg) is developing a health literacy pilot with CDC, JMU, Univ of Texas, and others. Contact Mike Trainum mtrainum@shellbook.com for more information.
Also: http://www.fluzoo.info
and: http://lifeaccesstech.wordpress.com/
Life Access Technology (of Harrisonburg) is developing a health literacy pilot with CDC, JMU, Univ of Texas, and others. Contact Mike Trainummtrainum@shellbook.com for more information.
Also: http://www.fluzoo.info
and: http://lifeaccesstech.wordpress.com/
