October is Health Literacy Month!

Health Literacy Month is a time for organizations and individuals to promote the importance of understandable health information. This annual, worldwide, awareness-raising event has been going strong ever since Helen Osborne founded it in 1999. Health Literacy Month is now brought to you in collaboration with the Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA).
The theme for Health Literacy Month is “Be a Health Literacy Hero.” It’s about taking action and finding ways to improve health communication. Health Literacy Heroes are individuals, teams, or organizations who not only identify health literacy problems but also act to solve them. You can help by recognizing and cheering on those you consider as Health Literacy Heroes.
WebJunction has an article about Health Literacy Month by Helen Osborne, M.Ed with lots of ideas for libraries.

Source: BHIC - October 5, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kay Deeney Tags: Health Information Literacy Source Type: blogs