Health Literacy & Public Health: Strategies for Addressing Low Health Literacy

Enroll

Overview

This training:

Provides strategies for considering literacy when creating public health messages for the general public.
Provides strategies for considering literacy in direct public health services to the public.

This training, second in a series, contains two sections and provides practical techniques for addressing literacy issues in spoken and written communications. Be sure to sure to complete Health Literacy & Public Health: Introduction as a good primer.

Objectives

After completing the course, the learner will be able to:

List seven barriers to good communication in public health.
Provide an example for each barrier.
List seven techniques to improve health communication.
Define plain language.
Describe three communication strategies you can apply in your daily work.

New York New Jersey Public Health Training Center was a collaborative endeavor of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the University at Albany School of Public Health, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Public Health and state, city, county and local health departments throughout New York and New Jersey.

top of page