[OPLINLIST] Health Literacy: It's Time To Take It Seriously!

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  Health Literacy: It's Time To Take It Seriously!
  <http://www.swonlibraries.org/viewevent?id=1144>


      Date

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007


      Time

1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.


      Location

SWON Libraries Office


      Speaker(s)

For 21 years, *Dr. Sandy Cornett* served at Program Manager of Consumer 
Health Education at The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, 
Ohio. In this capacity she was responsible for implementing a 
coordinated and comprehensive patient and health education system across 
the OSU Health System. Under her direction, over 3,000 titles of patient 
education materials written below an 8th grade reading level were 
developed and placed on the medical center's intra and internet. In 
1996, Dr. Cornett established a Center for Health Information (consumer 
health education library) within the hospitals where a large quantity of 
materials directed to persons with low-literacy and other language 
materials is available for patients, families, staff, and the general 
public. A grant was awarded to her in 2001 to help meet the health 
education needs of a large Somali population in Columbus.

For the past 6 years, Dr. Cornett has been in a part-time position as 
Director of the OSU / AHEC Health Literacy Initiative. Her 
responsibilities include providing guidance for developing and 
implementing the Ohio Health Literacy Initiative, a statewide 
collaborative effort between AHEC at OSU and statewide AHEC. This 
initiative entails raising awareness about health literacy issues, 
training of students and practitioners in the health professions, 
instituting consultative services for organizations that need assistance 
with health literacy issues, and researching ways to meet the challenges 
of low health literacy through community demonstration projects. Since 
taking this position, Dr. Cornett has trained over 5, 000 healthcare 
professionals and students in the health sciences.

Dr. Cornett graduated with a BS in Nursing in 1965, a MS in Nursing 
Education & Administration in 1970 and a Ph.D. in Adult Education and 
Instructional Design in 1981 from The Ohio State University. She has 
been a staff nurse, nurse manager, clinical nurse specialist, assistant 
director of staff development, faculty at 3 Universities, and has given 
continuing education presentations to health professionals at the local, 
state, and national level for over 37 years.

*Janet Petty*, MLIS, AHIP provides reference services to medical, 
nursing, and management staff as well as consumer health information for 
patients, family members and the public in her role as Associate 
Librarian for Patient and Family Education/Reference Services at Craig 
Memorial Library, Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, Ohio. Janet has 
oversight of the development, revision and distribution of all approved 
patient education materials at Miami Valley Hospital. This includes 
editing and evaluating the readability of the materials, whether 
developed in house or purchased commercially.

Janet has also developed a Patient and Family Education Intranet website 
that provides access for printing or ordering materials online. Last 
year over 100,000 patient education brochures were distributed.

Janet has been an advocate for Health Literacy since October 2001, where 
she was part of the first Ohio Health Literacy Institute training 
program. She has developed and given numerous presentations to nurses, 
physicians, and allied health personnel at Miami Valley Hospital. In 
addition, she has given presentations to the health sciences and public 
librarians in the Dayton area as well as participating in a Medical 
Library Association teleconference in 2003.

Janet received her BA in History from Wright State University, Dayton, 
Ohio and her MLIS from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. She is a 
member of the Ohio Health Sciences Library Association, Midwest Chapter 
of the Medical Library Association, the Medical Library Association and 
a Senior Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.


      Description

Knowledge of, and sensitivity to issues of low health literacy is 
crucial for effective communication. A lack of effective verbal and 
written health information can cause serious problems for an 
organization and the individuals it serves.

The focus of this workshop is to give you information on:
- An overview of the low health literacy issues, implications, and 
barriers faced by people who interface with the health care system
- Insight into the struggles and barriers people with low literacy 
encounter in the health care system
- Plain language criteria for selecting or writing health materials that 
are easy-to-read
- How to do a SMOG test on materials
- Criteria to assess health web sites
- Ways to adopt consumer health materials into a library collection and 
how to evaluate health information resources
- How to promote health literacy as a librarian
- Where to find area resources for consumer health information


      Meal

Light snacks will be served


      Audience

This workshop is open to all librarians and library staff


      Contributing Member of SWON Libraries

$35


      Friend of SWON Libraries

$35


      Contributing Member of NEO-RLS, NORWELD, or SERLS

$35


      Other

$70

The deadline to register is Monday, August 20th, 2007



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