MLA Releases Health Information Literacy Tutorial

From MLA-FOCUS 06/25/2009:

MLA is happy to announce the availability of a free web-based health information literacy tutorial, " Prescription for Information: Addressing Health Information Literacy ," developed by Gail Kouame, Consumer Health Coordinator, National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Northwest Region, for MLA's Health Information Literacy (HIL) Research Project.


The tutorial is for health care providers and emphasizes the importance of health literacy and the challenges patients face in understanding medical terminology. It also helps participants recognize the impact that low health literacy has on patient care and learn about health information resources and strategies available to them and their patients. The tutorial also describes health literacy services provided by medical librarians.


The "Prescription for Information" tutorial is based upon the health information literacy curriculum, "Putting Information into Health Literacy," developed by Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi for the MLA HIL project. The project was funded under NLM contract HHSN276200663511/NO1-LM-6-3511 with coprincipal investigators Jean Pugh Shipman, AHIP, FMLA, and Carla J. Funk, CAE.