A particular Prevention in Focus webinar from the NIH Workplace of Illness Prevention and the NIH Well being Literacy Working Group, in honor of Well being Literacy Month.
This webinar calls consideration to the significance of well being literacy in most cancers care with a highlight on most cancers prevention and management. It highlights the good thing about user-centered processes that incorporate a tradition and literacy perspective, and the requisite to develop R.E.A.L. (Relatable, Participating, Actionable, and Literacy) pleasant evidence-based most cancers interventions.
The influence of community-academic partnerships for improved group well being is illustrated via the Tampa Bay Group Most cancers Community (TBCCN), a community-academic partnership that serves as a singular springboard to gas useful analysis and easy-to-understand academic interventions. Drs. Meade and Gwede additionally present a snapshot of how group partnerships can advance transformational analysis and group improvements to unpack well being disparities with a lens on well being literacy. Grounded in community-based participatory analysis approaches, a sequence of TBCCN-informed research that concentrate on enhancing colorectal most cancers screening uptake amongst multicultural, multilingual sufferers in Federally Certified Well being Facilities is offered to “Say YES to Well being Literacy.”
