The Medical Library Association guide to health literacy
by
 
Kars, Marge, 1947-

Title
The Medical Library Association guide to health literacy

Author
Kars, Marge, 1947-

ISBN
9781555706258

Publication Information
New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2008.

Physical Description
xiv, 314 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series
Medical Library Association guides

Contents
Introduction to health literacy / Lynda M. Baker, Marge Kars, and Feleta L. Wilson -- Review of the literature / Nancy Schaefer -- Social practices in talk as components of health literacy / Charlene Pope -- Cultural competence and health literacy / Misa Mi -- Impact of patient low literacy on the individual and family / Feleta L. Wilson -- The association between literacy and health : providing health information to adults with low literacy / Heather J. Martin and C. Nadine Wathen -- Health literacy for people with disabilities / Shelley Hourston -- Health literacy and America's senior citizens / Marcy Brown -- A new digital divide : teens and Internet literacy / Ellen Freda, Jonathan Hayes Goff, and Andrea L. Kenyon -- The health reference interview : getting to the heart of the question while assessing your customer's literacy skills / Karyn Prechtel -- Public libraries and health literacy / Barbara Bibel -- Health literacy in Canada : highlighting library initiatives / Susan Murray -- Consumer health services in hospitals : the front line for health literacy / Julie Esparza -- Health literacy in action : the Bronson experience / Marge Kars -- Intervention programs for health literacy / Cleo Pappas -- Forming and funding collaborations to address health literacy / Kristine Alpi and Dina Sherman.

Subject Term
Medical librarianship -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
 
Health literacy -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
 
Health education -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
 
Patient education -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
 
Literacy -- Health aspects -- United States.
 
Social medicine -- United States.
 
Medical libraries -- Reference services -- United States.
 
Libraries and illiterate persons.
 
Libraries and people with social disabilities.
 
Libraries and community.
 
Communication in medicine.

Added Author
Kars, Marge, 1947-
 
Baker, Lynda.
 
Wilson, Feleta L., 1945-


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Beytepe LibraryBook7.2/15/13274Z675.M4 M497 2008Due 7/2/24