![]() ![]() Neither a high school education nor advanced reading skills guarantee that a person will understand health information ( Nielsen-Bohlman, Panzer, & Kindig 2004). However, this assumption is not necessarily valid. Their assumption is that if one can read, one can understand health information. Some people equate health literacy with the ability to read. ![]() ![]() Health literacy means different things to different people. in Communications from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., and a Master of Science degree in Organizational Leadership and Management from the University of La Verne, La Verne, Calif. He is co-author of the textbook, Health Literacy in Primary Care: A Clinician’s Guide, published in 2007 by Springer Publications and of the forthcoming low literacy self-help health book, What To Do For Heavy Kids, due out in December 2009 by IHA. He has written numerous articles on various aspects of health literacy, and lectures on several topics in health literacy, including designing and printing health education materials for a low literacy audience. Michael has produced and led several annual medical symposia, including an annual conference in the complementary/alternative medicine field, and in his current position, IHA’s annual Health Literacy Conference. He has helped redesign and launch several medical and nursing journals, and managed the development of a multimedia, interactive curriculum in critical care. His background includes 20 years in various Editor roles in healthcare publishing, including peer-reviewed journals in nursing, hospital publications, physician news magazines, and an online healthcare portal experiment. One area of IHA’s emphasis is on health literacy. from the University of Maryland, and her Master’s and Doctorate in Education from Columbia University in New York City.Įmail: Villaire is Director, Programs & Operations, for the Institute for Healthcare Advancement, a nonprofit healthcare foundation dedicated to empowering people to better health. degree from the University of Miami, an M.S. Mayer is co-author of the forthcoming low literacy self-help health book, What To Do For Heavy Kids, due out in December 2009 by IHA.ĭr. Her most recent publication is Health Literacy in Primary Care, A Clinician’s Guide. She is co-author, along with her husband, Thomas Mayer, M.D., of Goldilocks on Management, classic fairy tales revealing contemporary management principles. Her most recent publications include three of the five books in the What To Do For Health series: What to do When You’re Having a Baby, What To Do When Your Child Gets Sick, and What To Do For Teen Health. Mayer has extensive publications on a number of clinical and management topics. IHA is also a leader in health literacy, producing educational materials aimed at providing those with limited reading skills the health information they can use. IHA operates the Friends of Children Health Center (FOC) which is a community-based school clinic and a family resource center. Email: Gloria Mayer is the President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA), a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering people to better health. ![]()
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