Health Literacy

• Flu Pandemic Resources
  The Movement for Canadian Literacy and the Canadian Public Health Association worked together to help prepare Canada for a flu pandemic. Their toolkit contains fact sheets, a poster showing a hand with "wash me" written on it and the caption "Your life is in your hands," a user guide and issue brief for organizations, a newsletter and a CD-ROM.
• Health Literacy Skills Required for Patient Self-Management
  Day-to-day self-management of chronic conditions requires patients to understand and assess health information, plan and make lifestyle changes, make informed decisions and understand how to access care. This article highlights the issue of low literacy for those with health challenges and ways the challenges can be met.
  Reference: Patient self-management: health literacy skills required, June 19, 2007, Lessons in Learning, Canadian Council on Learning.
• October is Health Literacy Month!
  Find health literacy resources to celebrate health literacy month, including an event planning guide for health literacy advocates and promotional materials.
• Health Literacy Network News – A BC Blog
  This blog, a program of the BC Coalition of People with Disabilities, is useful for keeping up with general health resources, events, and news. Sign up for RSS feed or email updates.