Putting Health Literacy into Practice: A Pediatric Approach

May 23, 2007
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Central

OBJECTIVES

1. Gain awareness of health literacy, its impact, and relationship to quality care
2. Understand the patient and family perspective
3. Develop skills and techniques to address low health literacy Learn principles for selecting or developing plain language print materials
4. Identify resources within AAP for addressing low health literacy

MATERIALS

• Presentation Slides
  • Part 1: Benard Dreyer, MD, FAAP
  • Part 2: Mary Ann Abrams, MD, MPH, FAAP & Norma Kenoyer
  • Part 3: Connie Arnold, PhD
  • Part 4: Bernard Dreyer, MD, FAAP & Mary Ann Abrams, MD, MPH, FAAP
• Listen to the Recording
• Video Clips: The following video clips have been developed to illustrate the challenges of health literacy from the parent perspective.
  • Health Literacy Challenges and Reading Struggles
  • Challenges associated with everyday tasks like reviewing children’s school work
  • Learning to read together – enjoying children’s books with her granddaughter
  • Barriers to seeking health care – how forms challenge those with reading difficulties
  • Inadvertent overdose due to not understanding

We would like to thank Amy Tilman and Norma Kenoyer for sharing their stories and experiences. We would also like to thank the Audio-Visual Department at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport and Public Relations Department at Iowa Health - Des Moines for their assistance with the videos.

SPEAKERS

Benard Dreyer, MD, FAAP
New York University Medical Center

Mary Ann Abrams, MD, MPH, FAAP
Iowa Health System

Connie Arnold, PhD
Louisiana State University

Norma Kenoyer
New Readers of Iowa organization