Discussion: Consumer Health Literacy
Discussion: Consumer Health Literacy
Question Description
One of the most important goals of consumer health literacy efforts is to create educational materials that both attract and educate users. In this Assignment, you will create a health information document on a topic of your choice.
To get ready:
Choose a health issue that interests you.
Determine the audience or population you want to educate about this issue.
Search the Internet for credible websites that contain information about your chosen topic.
Examine the two websites for health literacy listed in this week’s Learning Resources. Concentrate on information-presentation strategies.
To finish:
Create an educational handout on the health issue of your choice.
Include a title page.
Include an introduction that includes the following information:
An explanation of your problem and why you chose it
A description of the audience to whom you are speaking
In the document itself:
Create your handout so that it catches the attention of the intended audience.
Include a description of the health issue as well as any additional content that will help your message stand out (i.e., key terms and definitions, graphics, illustrations, etc.).
Provide four or five websites that provide clear, valuable, and trustworthy information on the subject.
You should proofread your paper. However, do not rely solely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so
indicates a lack of effort on your part, and your grade will suffer as a result. Papers with a high number of misspelled words and grammatical errors will be penalized. Before submitting your paper, go over it in silence and then aloud, and make any necessary changes. It is often beneficial to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Uncorrected mistakes are preferable to handwritten corrections.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point typeface (10 to 12 characters per inch). Smaller or compressed type, as well as papers with narrow margins or single spacing, are difficult to read. It is preferable to allow your essay to exceed the recommended number of pages rather than attempting to compress it into fewer pages.
Large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are also unacceptable, waste trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced, and have a one-inch margin on all four sides of each page. When submitting hard copies, use white paper and print with dark ink. It will be difficult to follow your argument if it is difficult to read your essay.