{"id":19840,"date":"2021-10-15T01:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T01:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=19840"},"modified":"2021-10-15T01:14:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T01:14:50","slug":"health-literacy-month-community-health-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/health-literacy-month-community-health-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Literacy Month: Community Health Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthliteracymonth.org\/home\">Health Literacy Month<\/a>, we are looking at <strong>community health literacy<\/strong>. What is meant by community health literacy? \u00a0According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apha.org\/policies-and-advocacy\/public-health-policy-statements\/policy-database\/2014\/07\/09\/08\/00\/health-literacy-confronting-a-national-public-health-problem\">policy statement<\/a> from the American Public Health Association, \u201cAn individual\u2019s health literacy level is influenced by his or her language, ability to communicate clearly and listen carefully, age, socioeconomic status, cultural background, past experiences, cognitive abilities, and mental health. In addition, health literacy is affected by the assumptions and operations of health communicators and their respective health and social systems.<sup>\u201d <\/sup>We can think of community health literacy as the unique ways health literacy operates in a given community or population group. To encourage community health literacy, it is important to be culturally competent, practice cultural humility, and be aware of language needs within different communities.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">More About Community Health Literacy<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_19841\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19841\" class=\" wp-image-19841\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/pexels-rodnae-productions-83630231-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Children lined up in school. A young girl gets her temperature taken with a forehead thermometer by a person mostly out of frame.\" width=\"359\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/pexels-rodnae-productions-83630231-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/pexels-rodnae-productions-83630231-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/pexels-rodnae-productions-83630231-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/pexels-rodnae-productions-83630231.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@rodnae-prod?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">RODNAE Productions<\/a><\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/a-person-checking-the-body-temperature-of-a-girl-8363023\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>National Library of Medicine Resources<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Z2nOmTS12M\">Perspectives in Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility video<\/a> presented by Xan Goodman, Health Sciences Librarian, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=llX2QdxXIcw\">Providing Multilingual and Multicultural Health Information video<\/a> from the Network of the National Library of Medicine<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/\">Medline Plus<\/a>: an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/spanish\/\">Medline Plus en Espa\u00f1ol <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/populationgroups.html\">Population Groups in Medline Plus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/languages\/languages.html\">Health Information in Multiple Languages from Medline Plus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>More Resources<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4nzXUGGHufQ\">Moving from Cultural Competency to Cultural Humility: A Practical Overview video<\/a> from the Hawai\u2019i Public Health Institute<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ethnomed.org\/\">EthnoMed<\/a> is Harborview Medical Center\u2019s ethnic medicine website containing medical and cultural information about immigrant and refugee groups. Information is specific to groups in the Seattle area, but much of the cultural and health information is of interest and applicable in other geographic areas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfhi-fcass.ca\/about\/news-and-stories\/news-detail\/2020\/03\/19\/a-journey-we-walk-together-strengthening-indigenous-cultural-competency-in-health-organizations\">A Journey We Walk Together: Strengthening Indigenous Cultural Competency in Health Organizations <\/a>report and assessment tools from First Nations Health Managers Association and the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today for Health Literacy Month, we are looking at community health literacy. What is meant by community health literacy? \u00a0According to a policy statement from the American Public Health Association, \u201cAn individual\u2019s health literacy level is influenced by his or her language, ability to communicate clearly and listen carefully, age, socioeconomic status, cultural background, past&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/health-literacy-month-community-health-literacy\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2980,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-health-literacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2980"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19854,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19840\/revisions\/19854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}