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Training from Organizations other than CDC | Health Literacy | CDC

Culture and Health Literacy Modules

(Source: University of Minnesota School of Public Health 2011)

• Description: 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.
• Length: Not provided
• Continuing Education: Not provided
• Cost: Free

Health Literacy and Public Health

(Source: New York-New Jersey Public Health Training Center)

• Description: This training introduces the concept of health literacy, provides strategies for considering literacy when creating public health messages for the general public and provides strategies for considering literacy in direct public health services to the public.
• Length: Not provided
• Continuing Education: This training offers 3 Category I CECH in health education; 3 contact hours in nursing continuing education; 3 hours in Category One CME
• Cost: Free

Health Literacy Workshop

(Source: National Education Association 2001)

• Description: This online workshop helps educators at all grade levels learn how to build health literacy across curricula areas and where to go for additional training.
• Length: 1.5 hours
• Continuing Education: Not provided
• Cost: Free

Pathways to Safer Opioid Use training

(Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 2015)

• Description: This professional training program combines safe opioid use with pain management and health literacy. You can view a 7 minute clip that gives you a good sense of how this interactive and immersive training video helps doctors, nurses, pharmacists and patients use teach-back and shared decision making in the context of multiple story lines.
• Length: About 1 hour
• Continuing Education: This training offers 1 Category 1 AMA PRA credit
• Cost: Free

Preventing Adverse Drug Events: Individualizing Glycemic Targets Using Health Literacy Strategies

(Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)

• Description:  This is an eLearning course that teaches health care providers how to use health literacy strategies to reduce hypoglycemic adverse drug events (ADEs) in patients with diabetes.
• Length: Not provided
• Continuing Education: 1.5 CME credits; 1.3 CNE credits; .1 CEU credits; and .1 CPE credits
• Cost: Free