Is low health literacy hazardous to your health?

Is low health literacy hazardous to your health?  This Thursday, December 15, 2011, Patricia Devine ( twitter handle @pat_devine ) will be our guest to discuss this question.  Patricia Devine is uniquely qualified to engage in this tweetchat.

For the last 12 years, Ms. Devine has been developing and implementing outreach programs to increase the use of health information among health professionals in the Northwest.  She is involved in providing products and services from the National Library of Medicine to those who are without access to information in Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington State.

Training health care providers to communicate more effectively with patients has been part of Ms. Devine's work.  In her work as a medical librarian she is uniquely qualified to provide us all with guidance finding the resources we need to improve health literacy.  As AHRQ states and she confirms, health information literacy should be considered a "universal precaution" in health care.

Here are a list of websites that Ms. Devine recommends:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
http://www.healthliteracymissouri.org/
http://www.informationrx.org/
http://www.npsf.org/askme3/

Please join us as we discuss health literacy with Patricia Devine on #hchlitss.  Just go to www.tweetchat.com and enter the #hchlitss hashtag at 8pm ET and you'll find us all there.