Medical Communications: Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Health Literacy Improvement
Health Literacy is the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
Tools for improving health literacy
Sample Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy
Quick Guide to Health Literacy
Quick Guide to Health Literacy and Older Adults
Toolkit for Trainers: Teaching Older Adults How to Find Health Information on the Internet
PowerPoint Slides
Health Literacy chapter in Communicating Health: Priorities and Strategies for Progress
Government resources
AHRQ Health Literacy and Cultural Competency Web site
HRSA Health Literacy Web page
NIH Health Literacy Web sites
Clear Communication: an NIH Health Literacy Initiative
NLM's Medline Plus: Health Literacy
National Library of Medicine Health Literacy Bibliography
National Library of Medicine's Search & Health Literacy Information Resources
National Network of Libraries of Medicine: Health Literacy
Office of Minority Health: Think Cultural Health
Plain Language Web site
Usability Web site
NAL: Health Literacy Resource List for Educators March 2007 [PDF - 155 kb]
Reports and research
Health Literacy Town Hall Meeting Notes (2007-2008)
Proceedings of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Improving Health Literacy (2006)
Prevention Report: Focus on Health Literacy (2005)
Plain Language: A Promising Strategy for Clearly Communicating Health Information and Improving Health Literacy (2005)
Literacy and Health Outcomes (AHRQ) (2004)
A Prescription to End Confusion (IOM) (2004)
The Health Literacy of America's Adults: Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy
Presentation of NAAL Health Literacy Results, Dr. Grover J. (Russ) Whitehurst
A First Look at the Literacy of America's Adults in the 21st Century
Key Concepts and Features of the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)
Assessing the nation's health literacy: Key concepts and findings of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (2008) [PDF - 2.0 MB]
The Invisible Barrier: Literacy and Its Relationship with Oral Health [PDF - 1.1 MB]
Healthy People 2010 Chapter 11, Health Communication (2000)
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Last updated: July 24, 2008

Bio

Gardenia C. Hung has been writing prose, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction topics for the last forty-two (42) years in English, Spanish, French, and sometimes into Portuguese translation. She has written poetry for Scholastic Magazine in Spanish encouraged by her lyrical expression and descriptive style. Ms. Hung completed Elementary and Middle School in Santiago de Cuba with a diploma and certification in Spanish. Then, Gardenia C. Hung continued studies in the United States of America for Middle School, grades 6th with Miss Honeywood, 7th, and 8th at Avondale Elementary School where she graduated with High Honors in Mr. Herbert Hebel's 8th grade homeroom, in Chicago, Illinois. For Middle School English. Ms. Hung wrote original stories which received praise for writing style and authentic narrative topics, encouraged to continue studying English by Miss Kardos, her ESL teacher at Avondale Grammar School and other mentors, family, and friends. Later at Madonna High School received, Ms. Hung received a High School Diploma with High Honors for graduation in the top ten percent of the Class of 1977 with majors in English, French, Art, History, and the Humanities in Chicago, Illinois. Gardenia C. Hung was admitted at Northeastern Illinois University with Advanced Placement in English, French, and Spanish where she majored in Education, English, French, Spanish, Linguistics and minors in Music, Dance, and Physical Education to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree for the Class of 1982. At NEIU, she received a summer scholarship from Laval University in Ville de Québec, Canada to major in French Linguistics, Syntax, and Phonetics. The following year, in 1983, Ms. Hung continued graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago for a Master of Arts in Communications & Theatre, which included majors in Rhetoric, Ethnography, and Theatre. Gardenia C. Hung has written publications for professional associations and community groups. In addition, Ms. Hung writes for online media CNN iReport, Triblocal, Blogger, Facebook, WordPress, Typepad, and other social media groups on the world wide web.

Faculty Service for the Community Colleges of Illinois

Foreign language skills in English, French, and Spanish hired me to work as a Foreign Language Teacher at the Community High School District 218 during 1988-1989, teaching French and Spanish at the Alan B. Shepard High School with an annual salary of $23,778.

Bilingual aptitude in English and Spanish opened the door for me to work as Faculty at St. Augustine University in Chicago where I was teaching English as a Second Language, College Prep and Developmental Skills, U.S. Citzenship for the Amnesty Program, Research Writing and other language development courses which included preparation for High School General Education Development.

Afterwards, I also worked as Faculty for Oakton Community College in the Continuing Education Program, Alliance for Lifelong Learning in Skokie, Illinois. I was teaching English as a Second Language from August 1992 until March 1993.

From September 18, 1997 through October 8, 2001, I was employed as Faculty at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn and Lombard, teaching English Writing Development, English 101, 102, 103, 104, and 105, on campus, as well as commuting to teach Spanish for Healthcare Professionals at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, National Chiropractic College in Lombard, also known as National University for Health Sciences, and at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois.

In addition, I taught French and Spanish for Berlitz Schools of Languages in Chicago, Hinsdale, Oak Brook Brook Forest and York Middle School, and Schaumburg, Illinois, U.S.A. Foreign language teaching experience at Inlingua Schools of Languages also included commuting to teach on-site visiting corporate clients, and other travelling students at home. Arroyave Academy of Languages in Highland Park and Arlington Heights also provided teaching work for corporate clients which included translation for the General Learning Corporation in Northbrook, Caremark, Abbot Laboratories, Baxter International and other global companies promoting languages around the world.

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