This week in the Ontario Health Promotion Email Bulletin, Dr. Irving
Rootman, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Distinguished Scholar
and Professor, Centre for Community Health Promotion Research, Faculty of
Human and Social Development, University of Victoria writes about the
implications for health promtoion of health literacy developments.

He comments:
"In OHPE Bulletin 270.1, I discussed the possible relevance of the concept
of health literacy for health promotion (Rootman, 2002). In this issue, I
continue the discussion by drawing on Health Literacy: A Prescription to End
Confusion, a report on health literacy recently released by the U.S.
Institute of Medicine (IOM, 2004) to which I made a contribution as a member
of the committee that produced it. This report is important because
Institute of Medicine reports tend to have a significant impact on policy,
practice, and research in the United States, and often beyond. At a minimum,
they give prominence to health issues that are considered to be important by
policymakers, practitioners, and researchers. Moreover, this particular
report has implications for health promotion in Canada and elsewhere. After
presenting the background and summarizing findings and recommendations, I
discuss its implications for health promotion in Canada and elsewhere."

Read the full article "Health Literacy and Health Promotion: Implications of
an Institute of Medicine Report" in OHPE Bulletin #376.1 online at:
http://ohpe.ca/ebulletin/ViewFeatures.cfm?ISSUE_ID=376&ROWNUMBER=1

Read the earlier August 2002 article: "Health Literacy and Health Promotion"
in OHPE Bulletin #270.1 online at:
http://ohpe.ca/ebulletin/ViewFeatures.cfm?ISSUE_ID=270&ROWNUMBER=81

"Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion." by Nielsen-Bohlman, L.,
Panzer, A., Kindig, D.A. (eds.).
Available from Institute of Medicine.The Report of the Institute Medicine
Committee on Health Literacy. For summary of contents, see OHPE 376.1
(above). The book can either be downloaded in part from the website or
ordered at http://www.iom.edu/project.asp?id=3827.


Additional resources accompanying the two articles in the OHPE Bulletins can
be found on the OHPE website at:

OHPE #376.2 August 27, 2004:
http://ohpe.ca/ebulletin/ViewResources.cfm?ISSUE_ID=376&startrow=1

OHPE #270.2 August 2, 2002:
http://ohpe.ca/ebulletin/ViewResources.cfm?ISSUE_ID=270&startrow=101


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