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 | Title: | In Plain Language | | Pub. date: | not dated | | Includes: | Videocassette (VHS), pamphlet | | Audience: | Nutrition Educators | | Language: | English | | Description: | Provides information for medical and public health professionals on health literacy and its impact on public health and medicine. Addresses the wording on building signs, readability of forms and how literacy affects communication. Includes testimonials from adults with limited reading skills. A pamphlet lists discussion points. | | Funding Source: | Pfizer Corporation and the Educational Research and Development Centers Program, US Department of Education |
| Developer: | Rima Rudd and William DeJong, Harvard School of Public and the Health Literacy Studies Group | | Length: | 15 minutes | | Assessment instrument Used? | No | | Reviewers Comments: | Focuses more on the scope and significance of the health literacy problem than strategies for speaking and writing in plain language. Good for generating awareness about the significance of the problem. |
| View/download files: | | | HTML Introduction Page links to media in Real Video Format: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/overview/#Video | | Contact the Distributor: | | Distributor: | World Education, National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy | | Mail: | Harvard Graduate School of Education, 101 Nichols House, Appian Way
Cambridge, MA 02138 | | Phone: | (617) 482-9485 535 | | E-mail: | ncsall@worlded.org | | Cost: | 0.00 per | | Avail. in Qty: | No | | Bulkrate: | Available online only. |
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