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Course Description

This one-week Institute directly supports the work of professionals engaged in health literacy work to transform public health and healthcare delivery across the globe. Those working to improve patient-provider communication and healthcare quality as well as those working to improve population health literacy will find the Institute to be directly applicable.

Peer learning and the sharing of research and best practice are core components of the Institute's educational approach. Participants work on a health literacy program of their choice resulting in a final product that is current, comprehensive, informed by research, and reflective of best practice.

Objectives

  • Discuss health literacy definitions and framework, and educational interventions to reduce barriers, improve skills and achieve critical health literacy.
  • Name audience-specific health literacy competencies and the curriculum content to address those competencies.
  • Write measurable health literacy learning objectives and an evaluation plan that includes outcome and process measures.
  • Outline a health literacy curriculum or educational program based on sound adult learning theory and effective teaching strategies.

Contact Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, Course Director, at sabrina.kurtz_rossi@tufts.edu for more information

 

Basic Enrollment Requirements: You will be contacted after registration for required evidence of immunization; please contact lucia.fenney@tufts.edu with any questions regarding immunizations.

Instructor Approval: Not Required.

Refund Policy: Workshops Policy 1

Remission Eligibility: Not Eligible.

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