The health literacy field was front page news this week, as the Biden Administration announced an effort to invest $250 million to encourage COVID-19 safety and vaccination among underserved populations through health literacy grants. This new initiative is called Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19. Vice President Kamala Harris made the announcement […]
Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate
Infographic: Prompts for reflection on vaccine communication
Health professionals all over the world are focused on communication about the COVID vaccines. As nice as it would be to have a one-size-fits-all way to communicate about the vaccine, to everybody, that would work 100% of the time, we know that’s not realistic. Adding to the complexity, there’s also a strong emotional climate around […]
Episode #92 11 Tips to improve patients’ health literacy
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]