Assignment: Health Information Patient Handout

Assignment: Health Information Patient Handout

One of the pivotal goals of consumer health literacy efforts is to design educational materials that attract as well as educateusers. In this Assignment, you design a health information document on a topic that is of interest to you.

To prepare:

• Select a health issue of interest to you: OBESITY
• Identify the audience or population that you seek to educate about this issue: HISPANIC AMERICANS
• Search the Internet to find credible sites containing information about your selected topic.
• Review the two health literacy websites listed in this week’s Learning Resources. Focus on strategies for presenting information.

To complete:

• Design an educational handout on the health issue you selected.

◦                     Include a cover page.

◦                     Include an introduction that provides:

▪                                       An explanation of your issue and why you selected it

▪                                       A description of the audience you are addressing

◦                     In the handout itself:

▪                                       Develop your handout in such a way that it attracts the attention of the intended audience.

▪                                       Include a description of the health issue and additional content that will enhance your message (i.e., key terms and definitions, graphics, illustrations, etc.).

▪                                       Recommend four or five sites that provide clear, valuable, and reliable information on the topic.