Every October, educators, health professionals, and communities mark Health Literacy Month which is a time to shine a light on the importance of understanding and using health information to make informed choices. At its core, health literacy is about more than reading a pamphlet or following doctor’s orders. It’s about giving people, including our students, …
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This week's blog post comes from Kate Macmorn, the Communications Director for the American Medical Resource Institute (AMRI) where they’ve trained over a million healthcare professionals to study for, earn and maintain life support certifications that allow them to better respond to cardiac emergencies. Have you ever been in a situation where someone suddenly collapsed …
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Health Literacy Month is a time for organizations and individuals to promote the importance of understandable health information and this week, SHAPE America introduced its first ever Health Education Youth Empowerment Series to help students develop the skills they need to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of others. The first unit, …
I want you to close your eyes for a minute and think back to your high school or junior high health education experience. What do you remember?...if anything? More importantly, what “Letter Grade” would you give yourself today, right now, if we did an accurate assessment of your health and well-being? Anyone not get …
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October is our month! It's Health Literacy Month. Health Literacy Month is a time for organizations and individuals (that's you and me!) to promote the importance of understandable health information. The theme for Health Literacy Month 2015 is “Be a Health Literacy Hero.” It’s about taking action and finding ways to improve health communication. Health Literacy Heroes are individuals, …
This week Shaun Bowes takes the wheel and becomes our first guest blogger. Hailing from Australia he has just completed his Masters of Teaching from Monash University and at 23 he'll become 'one of us' when he starts applying for teaching positions in 2016. Please welcome him as he writes on a subject about which he …
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