This online course discusses how inequalities in health information contribute to health disparities and what communities can do to close the gap and improve health literacy.
Module 1 features "Beyond Access: Communication Inequality and Its Implications for Health Disparities," a presentation by Dr. Kasiomayajula Viswanath, a national expert on health communication. He describes inequalities in the generation, manipulation, distribution and capacity to act on health information among social and cultural groups in the United States.
Module 2 describes three local efforts to address the health literacy gap in Minnesota. The three projects featured include: Emergency Preparedness with Cultural Communities, known as The ECHO project; PhotoVoice; and the Urban Health Agenda Community Advisory Committee, known as UHACAC. These projects were selected because they represent some of the cutting-edge work related to health literacy among social and cultural groups. Also included are personal interviews with field experts, additional resources, and an article to prompt further discussion and action.
This module provides an overview of how to create Temporary Negative Pressure Isolation (TNPI). Different methods for setting up temporary isolation (when there are no available AIIRs) are described. Temporary anterooms and methods used to isolate large numbers of patients needing airborne isolation are also described.
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