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Literacy Working Group Best Practices Approaches to Assessment Peggy SisselPhelan EdD December 1 2010 Health literacy allows the public and personnel working in all healthrelated contexts to find understand evaluate communicate and use information Health literacy is the use of a wide range of skills that improve the ability of people to act on information in order to live healthier lives These skills include reading writing listening speaking numeracy and critical analysis as well as communication and interaction skills . Excessive alcohol use leads to about 88000 deaths in the United States each year and shortens the life of those who die by almost 30 years Further excessive drinking cost the economy 2235 billion in 2006 Most excessive drinkers are not alcohol depen Summary 2 The strategy 3 Background S Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases National Institutes of Health 1 AMS Circle Bethesda MD 20892 3675 Phone 301 495 Dr Jane Hutchinson. & . Laura Greaves. 13. th. March 2014. Learning objectives. Know the key facts about the common STIs including symptoms, treatment &. . local prevalence rates. Know what tests to use . Sandi . Gálvez. , MSW. Executive Director. To transform public health practice for the purpose of eliminating health inequities using a broad spectrum of approaches that create healthy communities.. Samuel F. Posner, Ph.D.. Deputy Associate Director for Science and Editor in Chief, . Preventing Chronic Disease. Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality. August 3, 2011. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion . Are you a health writer? Are you an experienced health professional? Increase your exposure by getting published on WorldwideHealth.com Andrew Dillon. Michigan State University. Jed Friedman. The World . Bank. Pieter . Serneels. . University of East Anglia. October 2013. Motivation. Health largely seen as critical input to economic development … but economic gains from health investment difficult to measure. Anne Nolan (TCD, ESRI). Charles Normand (TCD). Irish Economic Policy Conference. Dublin, 31. st. January 2014. Context. Substantial health system pressures in Ireland. Large, real declines in public expenditure. Date : 20. th. January , 2014. State Map. OBJECTIVES . Equity in access to health.. Social Health Protection (Non-exclusion and non-discrimination).. Universal Health Access for all.. Comprehensive care that is rational and of good quality.. Environmental Health Division Town Health Officer Program What is a Town Health Officer Vermont Department of Health Vermont Department of Health Local Health Officer Appointment “The commissioner shall appoint, upon recommendation of the selectmen, a local health officer for each town or city…” CHILDREN NEED HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS
Health is more than absence of illness
Children need healthy environments in which to grow
and develop, play and learn
Adults must ensure that children are protected from
environmental threats
Now and for generations to come! and Social Justice in . Integrated Behavioral Health Care. Module 5 . Roseanna . McCleary. , PhD. California State University, Bakersfield. Learning Objectives. Increase knowledge of health disparities and health equity and the context in which...