This guide is designed as an addendum to the Health and Literacy Compendium and specifically contains descriptions of health education materials in English and other languages and ordering information. It also addresses issues of culture and low-literacy. Culture, Health and Literacy is intended to help health care practitioners working with patients with limited English literacy skills, and adult literacy practitioners interested in incorporating health topics into adult education classrooms. Health and Literacy Compendium , 1999. World Education and the National Institute for Literacy.
Some materials are available in Spanish.
Organizational resources also are listed. A Guide for Public Health Education in Adult Literacy Practitioners, Policy Makers and Funders , Vol. An example of how adult learners can be engaged in defining and addressing their own health care needs. The author worked with a group of women at a Massachusetts literacy center to develop student-led approaches to earlier detection of breast, cervical, and testicular cancers and prevention of family violence. Background information about the relationship between literacy and health also is provided.