Healthcare Literacy and Education Discussion Step 1: Read the following articles

Healthcare Literacy and Education Discussion
Step 1: Read the following articles: see attachements to read the Articals
Healthy Behaviors:
Conversation skills for the Health ProfessionalDownload Conversation skills for the Health Professional
Barriers and Facilitators of Healthy BehaviorsDownload Barriers and Facilitators of Healthy Behaviors
Health PromotionDownload Health Promotion
Health Literacy
Health Literacy and Dr. GoogleDownload Health Literacy and Dr. Google
Health literacy Download Health literacy( this is older but a sentinel article)
Step 2: Review the Demarco Text Book for information that is pertinent to your project. The topics of the relevant chapters are listed below.
Book access: login information will be provided to the assigned writer
Chapters 14 -15 Infectious and Communicable Diseases
Chapter 16 Violence and Abuse ( includes screening)
Chapter 17 Substance Use
Chapter 18 Health Iniquities in Populations (includes rural areas, Homeless, LBGTQ)
Chapter 19 Environmental Health ( includes Children’s Health and the Environment (Schools)
Chapter 20 Community Disaster Preparedness Terrorism
Chapter 21 Community Mental Health
Chapter 22 School Health
Chapter 23 Innovative Community Engagement Practice to Advance Populaton Health (includes discussion on Faith Oriented Communities)
Chapter 24 Palliative and End of Life Care
Chapter 25 Occupational Health
Step 3: Do some research on the topic of effective communication and health education and/or health literacy education for those within the community you are using for this project.
People learn different ways and different mediums appeal to different demographics depending on age, background, education, etc. This research will help you better identify the most effective medium for communicating and educating your chosen community.
Questions to Consider as you Research:
What health literacy/education approaches have been tried in the past within your community or a similar population?
Were they effective? What made them work?
Were they ineffective? What was the issue that made them less effective?
What initiatives have been used in the past to inform your community or a similar population, outside healthcare?
Were they effective? What made them work?
Were they ineffective? What was the issue that made them less effective?
What variables effect your chosen communities reception of information?
What role does culture play in your chosen communities reception of information?
How can you leverage culture in creating your product to increase effectiveness?
Compose a discussion board post sharing your thoughts, findings and conclusions on effective ways to educate and inform your chosen community including what barriers exist, what has been effective and ineffective in the past and what mediums you are considering to bypass those barriers. Remember to explain your rationale about why your chosen medium will be effective.
Your post should be a conversational, informal sharing of thoughts and reactions. Consider including what surprised you, what did you wonder as you were researching, etc. You can also share websites and articles that you found to be a valuable resource in examining the topic. Your post can also be a synthesis responding to the questions above; however it does not need to speak to all the research questions above.
For this discussion, you are required to post a reply to one of your peer’s post. Any thoughts about their plans? Any suggestions that you can provide to assist them? Hearing someone else’s thoughts can help make your own thinking evolve. This is an informal sharing of ideas, you are welcome to cite sources but it is not required.