The Biden Administration recently announced an effort to invest $250 million to encourage COVID-19 safety and vaccination among underserved populations through health literacy grants. In this episode, learn how some of the grant requirements may forge new advances in more equitable communication. Listen here and read the transcript below. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT There’s some big news in […]
Health Literacy & Digital Health Literacy
Biden Administration to invest $250 Million as health literacy grants
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 […]
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 #90 Building momentum for health equity in health communication
This podcast series was the subject of a recent article in the Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. This is cool in its own right, especially because the article is about disrupting deficit perspectives. But what’s even better is the warm reception it’s gotten from people around the health sector. Find out what the […]
US House Ways & Means releases new Equity Framework
“Health does not exist in a vacuum, and achieving health equity will require addressing the economic and social inequities that have long persisted within our country.” This statement is from the Introduction to a new Ways and Means Committee Report, entitled Something Must Change: Inequities in U.S. Policy and Society. It was released this week, along with a document […]