Dr. Genelle Lamont

And just make sure that you don't leave that office visit until you have your questions fully answered or make sure that you know what to do when you're out of that medical appointment. Maybe ask for some follow-up.

And just make sure that you don't leave that office visit until you have your questions fully answered or make sure that you know what to do when you're out of that medical appointment. Maybe ask for some follow-up.

Great question. So if there's providers or healthcare organizations or even public health organizations that are listening on the call. Again, to just recognize that health literacy is very important to patient or consumer health education. Even if you're thinking about things like communicating data or charts, that's still a form of health education, correct? And if you want your end user to

Great question. So if there's providers or healthcare organizations or even public health organizations that are listening on the call. Again, to just recognize that health literacy is very important to patient or consumer health education. Even if you're thinking about things like communicating data or charts, that's still a form of health education, correct? And if you want your end user to

your patient, your client, that healthcare consumer, to take your information and be able to actually use it and make sense of it, then you need to be incorporating these health literacy best practices. One way to get that education and get it free is through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's health literacy website.

your patient, your client, that healthcare consumer, to take your information and be able to actually use it and make sense of it, then you need to be incorporating these health literacy best practices. One way to get that education and get it free is through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's health literacy website.

You go through something called CDC Train, and there's several modules there for different types of providers, including public health educators. I highly recommend those trainings. They'll teach you the basics about health literacy. They'll explain how you can incorporate that into health education materials, how to make data and reports more understandable.

You go through something called CDC Train, and there's several modules there for different types of providers, including public health educators. I highly recommend those trainings. They'll teach you the basics about health literacy. They'll explain how you can incorporate that into health education materials, how to make data and reports more understandable.

And there's also other great tools on that website too, like the 10 attributes of a health literate organization.

And there's also other great tools on that website too, like the 10 attributes of a health literate organization.

A lot of folks have successfully used that as a tool to create an assessment for your organization where you can look through each of those 10 attributes and see where your strengths lie and where there are some places that maybe you need to draw more attention to, such as workforce training, right?

A lot of folks have successfully used that as a tool to create an assessment for your organization where you can look through each of those 10 attributes and see where your strengths lie and where there are some places that maybe you need to draw more attention to, such as workforce training, right?