Health professionals, how you write and speak affects Health Equity. That’s why health literacy is so important now. In this episode, you’ll learn 11 concrete things you can do with your very next patient or client to help with health literacy. And there’s a bonus infographic! Listen here and read the transcript below. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Today’s […]
11 Tips to improve patients’ health literacy Rebroadcast
Health professionals, how you write and speak affects Health Equity. That’s why health literacy is so important now. In this episode, you’ll learn 11 concrete things you can do with your very next patient or client to help with health literacy. And there’s a bonus infographic! EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Today’s episode is about health literacy, one of […]
Advancing health equity as an inside job
When it comes to health equity, professionals across the health sector are stopping and asking hard questions of ourselves. How are we as practitioners contributing to health inequities, despite our best intentions? How do our institutions unwittingly present barriers to equitable care? Health inequities don’t just happen, they’re not inevitable. They’re created and maintained, often […]
Episode #91 Putting an idea forward about the Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity
January was a busy policy month–in the US government, and here on HealthCommunicationPartners.com. I wrote about policy twice in one month! In this episode, I summarize a bit of what’s been going on. Then, I take a close look at one part of the Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through […]
Putting an idea forward about the Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity
January was a busy policy month in the US. In this episode I take a close look at one part of the Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, and suggest an action that anyone (including federal agencies) can take when it comes to enhacing equity through policy. […]
One response to the Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity
It’s been an exciting time for health equity! As I reported earlier this month, US House Ways and Means Committee released a new document outlining policy pillars and priorities, A Bold Vision for a Legislative Pathway Toward Health and Economic Equity, and a new report, Something Must Change: Inequities in U.S. Policy and Society, with this fiery statement: “Health […]