Call for documents and reports on Health Literacy- please distribute 
or forward to relevant parties

The Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (CCDPC) at the 
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is actively working to develop 
Canada's agenda, role(s) and capacities in the area of Health 
Literacy, and to build together a coordinated effort over the next 
few years.  A key question is, "what is the role, competencies, and 
capacities of the federal government or national organizations to 
engage in work related to health literacy".

The Centre for Population Health Promotion Research at the University 
of British Columbia has been hired by PHAC to identify departments, 
organizations and staff who are interested in helping to create and 
carry out the Health Literacy agenda.

As a key part of the above efforts, we are doing an international 
"scan" of federal departments, nation-wide organizations and other 
international analogs to Canada's federal 'Health Portfolio' (units 
or departments). We are looking at 1) interventions, programs and/or 
campaigns explicitly related to health literacy; and 2) health 
literacy work done at a national or federal level.

We what to know what work has been done at a Federal or National 
level in your country (jurisdiction) in advancing a health literacy 
agenda.  Specifically, we are collecting documents or reports related 
to work in health literacy that would help to address our question 
of  "what is the role, competencies, and capacities of the federal 
government or national organization to engage in work related to 
health literacy"

We invite you to send us any relevant health literacy documents or 
reports. We may also be contacting you to participate in a telephone 
interview (between 30 to 45 minutes) with one of our project team members.

If you can recommend other individuals involved in health literacy 
work in your department or organization we would appreciate you 
contacting us. Please contact Diane Gray or Christine Soon at 
604-822-0820 or by email [log in to unmask] if you have any questions.

Dr. Jim Frankish
Professor, Human Early Learning Partnership, College for 
Interdisciplinary Studies, UBC
Professor, School of Population & Public Health, UBC; Director, 
Centre for Population Health Promotion Research
Member, National Research-Training Program on Population Health Interventions
Senior Scholar, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (Past)
Room 425, School of Population & Public Health (formerly Library 
Processing Centre) 2206 East Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3
O: 604-822-9205, C: 778-987-9205; F: 822-9228 [log in to unmask]
http://www.jimfrankish.com; http://blogs.ubc.ca/frankish/

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