Ans) Brandt explains these forces through the term “sponsors of literacy,” defined as “any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it in some way”.
- Fellow teachers—those who shared the teaching beliefs and, oddly enough, some of those who hated it—contributed in many ways to my classroom as well. Their impact can be seen most powerfully in references to mutually agreed-upon actions that I mention throughout the documents I analyze. Agreeing to certain testing conditions, lesson foci, and student transfer protocols reduces confusion and curricular overlap for teachers, and assurances of this reduced confusion and curricular overlap tends to satisfy this sponsor.
Find a promotional schedule for a professional team. What unique items did you find? What sponsors were attached to those items?
Examine the role of knowledge management components in consumer informatics. Justify the importance of health literacy for patient empowerment in consumer informatics.
What can you do to improve your health literacy?
What are some literacy/numeracy issues in healthcare settings? What recommendations would you make to improve communication where literacy and numeracy limitations are evident?
What other places would you send your patients for health literacy resources?
What does "health literacy" mean? How is this term defined by the Ad Hoc Committee on Health Literacy for the Council on Scientific Affairs of the AMA? Do you agree that an individual's health literacy is likely to be worse than their general literacy? Why or why not?
1. What is health literacy and how can it impact patients? 2. What are some strategies a healthcare system or clinic can employ to improve health literacy? 3. Do you believe creating documents for patients to interpret (i.e. consents) without taking into consideration health literacy is an ethical issue (please explain your answer)
What is the role that a nurse plays in Information Literacy? What can the nurse do to help information literacy?
Reflect on your experiences with literacy/numeracy issues in healthcare settings. Explain any personal examples you have seen where poor literacy and numeracy skills prevented attainment of good health. What recommendations would you make to improve communication where literacy and numeracy limitations are evident?
How have you used informatics to improve health literacy in your practice? If you have not used informatics in this manner, how could you use informatics in your practice to improve health literacy?