As we prepare for health literacy month in October, it seemed a great time to think about what health literacy is and how we can support health literacy through health programming.<\/p>\n
Health literacy<\/a> involves the information that people need to be able to make good decisions about health. There are two parts:<\/p>\n There are many ways to support health literacy and one way is to get the conversation started. This could be through collections and book displays to a variety of programming like a story walk with a health theme to hosting health themed book discussions.<\/p>\n Book discussions in your library can be a great way to open up conversations about health and promote health literacy. The NNLM is here to help you start those conversations. Through resources such as the NNLM Reading Club<\/a> and NNLM Region 7\u2019s Graphic Medicine<\/a> resources, we have book ideas and discussion guides ready to go to assist with planning your next book club.<\/p>\n \u201cGraphic medicine is the use of comics to tell personal stories of illness and health\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0-From the NLM Traveling Exhibit \u201cGraphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well Drawn!\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n If the term graphic medicine is new to you, think about titles such as Key, Kiddo<\/em> by Jarrett J. Krosoczka or Can\u2019t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?<\/em> \u00a0By Roz Chast. These graphic memoirs are a great way to begin conversations about health. \u00a0In addition, for NNLM members in Region 7, we have kits including copies of the books, discussion guides and supporting health information which we will ship to your organization at no cost to you. Just pack up the books in the return envelope after your book discussion.<\/p>\n We are excited to announce that we have two new book club kits being added to our collection on the topics of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease and Migrant Health! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Tangles:<\/strong><\/em> A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Sarah Leavitt (2010)<\/p>\n Book Description:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>From the publisher: \u201cSarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer\u2019s disease transformed her mother, Midge, and her family forever. In spare black-and- white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her family\u2019s journey through a harrowing range of emotions\u2014shock, denial, hope, anger, frustration\u2014all the while learning to cope, and managing to find moments of happiness.\u201d \u00a0Here you will find the Alzheimer’s Disease Discussion Guide<\/a><\/p>\n The Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont<\/em><\/strong> Drawn by New England Cartoonists, Edited by Marek Bennett, Andy Kolovos, Teresa Mares and Julia Grand Doucet<\/p>\n Book Description: \u201cThis non-fiction comics anthology presents stories of survival and healing told by Latin American migrant farmworkers in Vermont, and drawn by New England cartoonists as part of the El Viaje M\u00e1s Caro Project\u2026aimed at addressing the overlooked mental health needs of these vulnerable immigrants\u2026this collected edition brings the lives and voices\u2013as well as the challenges and hardships\u2013of these workers to an English-language audience, granting insight into the experiences and lives of the people vital to producing the food we eat.\u201d Here you will find the Migrant Health Discussion Guide<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n NLM and NNLM have great resources to get you started.<\/p>\n Take a class with NNLM!<\/p>\n NNLM Region 7 has more information about graphic medicine and discussion guides. \u00a0NNLM Members in Region 7 can request graphic medicine book club kits: Region 7 Graphic Medicine Information and Book Club Kits<\/a><\/p>\n Exhibition Collection and Traveling Exhibit\u00a0 Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived & Well-Drawn! | NLM (nih.gov)<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we prepare for health literacy month in October, it seemed a great time to think about what health literacy is and how we can support health literacy through health programming. 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