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Health Smarts: A TV411 Learning Kit

Health Smarts: A TV411 Learning Kit. September 2005. Workshop Goals. Investigate methods for increasing learners’ health literacy skills. Explore ways to teach academics in the context of Health Literacy. What key academic factors can lead to improved Health Literacy?. Academic Factors.

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Health Smarts: A TV411 Learning Kit

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  1. Health Smarts: A TV411 Learning Kit September 2005

  2. Workshop Goals • Investigate methods for increasing learners’ health literacy skills. • Explore ways to teach academics in the context of Health Literacy.

  3. What key academic factors can lead to improved Health Literacy?

  4. Academic Factors • Complete forms • Access appropriate information • Read health related information • Understand directions • Follow directions

  5. Those with limited literacy skills: • Report poorer overall health • Are less likely to make use of screening • Present in later stages of disease • Are more likely to be hospitalized • Have poorer understanding of treatment • Have lower adherence to medical regimens

  6. The health of the country depends on the ability of adults to read and understand prescriptions and other health information. Forty-five percent of adults cannot perform these tasks.(NCSDAE, 3/15/05)

  7. Incorporating Health Literacy into your classrooms: • Teach transferable skills, not medical skills. • Use contextual instruction so students feel like they’re moving toward their educational goals.

  8. TV411 Videos • Twenty (30-minute) videos with introductory video Print Materials • 20 workbooks • User’s Guide, free with a set of workbooks • Teacher’s Guide • Curriculum Index—a cross-referenced index of video and workbook contents Learning Kits • Video, print, and optional web resources focusing on skills in Health, Financial Literacy, Family Learning and Reading Online Lessons, Activities

  9. Learn from the Label:  Taking Medicine Safely Get Organized: Managing Multiple Medications Keep Track: Writing and Good Health Get Informed: Reading and Good Health What's on the Label?: Gathering the Facts on Good Nutrition  What's Your Risk?: Understanding the Odds Body Talk: Building a Medical Vocabulary Health Smarts Kit Covers a broad array of health issues and presents reading, writing and math concepts within the context of family health care.

  10. TV411 Multi-Media Lessons

  11. What other ways can you incorporate Health Literacy into your classrooms?

  12. Health Literacy Resources • http://www.csg.org/CSG/Policy/health/health+literacy/health+literacy+links.htm • http://www.worlded.org/us/health/docs/culture/matl_websites.html • http://foundation.acponline.org/healthcom/hli/resources.htm(video can be found here)

  13. For more information, contact: KET at 859-258-7009 or tcrum@ket.org

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