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Health literacy from A to Z : practical ways to communicate your health message / Helen Osborne.
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Title:Health literacy from A to Z : practical ways to communicate your health message / Helen Osborne.
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Author/Creator:Osborne, Helen, 1948-
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Published/Created:Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett, ©2005.
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Location:BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: WA590 .O825 2005
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Health education.
Communication in medicine.
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Description:xx, 293 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:0763745502 (pbk.)
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Contents:Foreword / Samuel M. Putnam
About health literacy
Assessing literacy in healthcare
Assessing readability
Bulleted lists
Choosing, adapting, and reviewing teaching materials
Consumer health libraries
Decision aids and shared decision-making
Email
Ethics of simplicity
Feedback : interviews and focus groups
Feng shui and other environmental considerations
Forms and other "reading-to-do" documents
Groups, classes, and educational programs
Hearing : communicating with people who are deaf or hard of hearing
Helping patients prepare for and participate in healthcare
Helping patients remember and follow medical instructions
Humor
Internet information
Interpreters : foreign and American Sign Language
Knowledge : learning and teaching
Language and culture : communicating with people from other languages and lands
Literacy : communicating with people who do not read or read well
Media : videotapes, audiotapes, CDs, and DVDs
Medical-legal documents
Metaphors and analogies
Numbers
Objects and models
Older adults
Pictographs
Plain language
Quality
Risk communication
Signs, maps, and other navigation tools
Stories and narratives
Talking and listening
Telephone
Touchscreen technology
Translations
Universal design in print and on the Web
Vision : communication with people who are blind or have limited vision
Visuals
Website design
Word choice
X-tras
You : empathy and humanity
Zest and pizzazz
Eight ways you can improve health communication.