Health Information Patient Handout
One of the pivotal goals of
consumer health literacy efforts is to design educational materials that
attract as well as educate users. In this Assignment, you design a health
information document on a topic that is of interest to you.
To prepare:
Select a health issue of interest
to you.
Identify the audience or
population that you seek to educate about this issue.
Search the Internet to find
credible sites containing information about your selected topic.
Review the two health literacy
websites listed in this week’s Learning Resources. Focus on strategies for
presenting information.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/
https://health.gov/healthliteracyonline/
To complete:
Design an educational handout on
the health issue you selected.
Include a cover page.
Include an introduction that
provides:
An explanation of your issue and
why you selected it
A description of the audience you
are addressing
In the handout itself:
Develop your handout in such a way
that it attracts the attention of the intended audience.
Include a description of the
health issue and additional content that will enhance your message (i.e., key
terms and definitions, graphics, illustrations, etc.).
Recommend four or five sites that
provide clear, valuable, and reliable information on the topic.
