{"id":1906,"date":"2010-07-16T11:29:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T18:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2010-07-21T12:38:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T19:38:21","slug":"health-literacy-in-the-real-world-programs-and-solutions-that-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=1906","title":{"rendered":"Health Literacy in the Real World: Programs and Solutions that Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Sue Shelly, BSN, MLS,  Librarian, Patient and Family Library, Banner Thunderbird Medical Center <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the MLGSCA professional development fund, I went to the 2010 IHA Health Literacy Conference on May 6-7 in Irvine, California.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of the Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA) is Empowering people to better health.  This year, the IHA held its ninth professional continuing education conference in health literacy.\u00a0 Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iha4health.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">IHA<\/a> webpage for information about the conference, speakers, and their presentations.<\/p>\n<p>The title of this year\u2019s conference was \u201cHealth Literacy in the Real World: Programs and Solutions that Work\u201d and the sessions I attended stuck to that theme.  Most plenary and breakout sessions speakers work face-to-face with patients and health care staff.  These speakers brought the credibility of those who have \u201cbeen there,\u201d along with evidence-based, pragmatic information.  If you read about health literacy, you may recognize the names of some speakers: Michael Villaire, MSLM, David Baker, MD, Darren A. DeWalt, MD, MPH, and several others.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It was exciting to attend poster sessions and talk with people who are addressing the complex issues many of us face.  This was a conference of inspiring speakers and participants!<\/p>\n<p>The IHA has a series of excellent \u201cWhat to do for Health\u201d books, written for a 3rd- to 5th-grade reading level. Everyone who came to the conference received a free copy of each.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend the IHA conference for those who want to integrate health literacy into any part of health care: consent forms, research, verbal communication, writing, teaching patient care staff, integrating social media, and more.<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful to MLGSCA for making it possible for me to attend and participate in this stimulating, valuable conference.<\/p>\n<p><em>Posted 7\/16\/10<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sue Shelly, BSN, MLS, Librarian, Patient and Family Library, Banner Thunderbird Medical Center Thanks to the MLGSCA professional development fund, I went to the 2010 IHA Health Literacy Conference on May 6-7 in Irvine, California. The mission of the Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA) is Empowering people to better health. This year, the IHA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}