As health professionals, you care about health literacy. It’s become shorthand for “the patient side of things,” and its importance can’t be overstated. Yet health literacy is a large field. The research on health literacy covers a massive territory. So it’s easy to get lost in the weeds. In this infographic, I offer some distinctions […]
Public Health Communication
Episode 161 4 health equity topics we’re following
It’s our podcasting anniversary! We’re 6! And we’re celebrating by taking a look at what’s ahead. Here are 4 topics in health equity that are priorities here at HCP. It’s our 6th anniversary and we are taking this opportunity to do a little looking back and a little looking forward. I don’t know what your […]
Episode 160 How to shift out of a deficit model on patients
There’s a difference between identifying someone’s needs, and regarding the person as being deficient. In this episode, you’ll learn about how common deficit models are in health care some of the damage they can do two things you can do to turn away from a deficit perspective. Do you know what a deficit perspective is? […]
It’s HCP’s 6th Anniversary!
It’s been a thrill, since 2017, to get to know you and people like you in health care, public health, and health professions, who are knocking themselves out to do everything you can to reduce health disparities and improve health equity. The biggest event in HCP’s history has been the launching of our COURSES + […]
Episode 157 The stories behind our courses
It’s the middle of a sunny morning in the Fall. I’m on the phone in the kitchen. Pacing. Back and forth and back and forth in the kitchen, out to the living room, around the living room, back again into the kitchen. I’m on the phone with my mentor, Dr. Susan Lytle. Susan is famous […]
“Unprecedented” health communication research program paused by NIH
Multiple sources over the last few weeks report that the NIH’s $154 million research program, Advancing Health Communication Science and Practice, has been paused. This is sad news for our health communication community, and beyond. There is concern that the halt in the program is politically motivated, and that NIH leadership is bowing to pressure. […]