Health Literacy Fundamentals - 2025 Dates

Fri, 21 Feb, 2025 at 09:00 am to Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm UTC-08:00

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital - DET (Learning Center) | San Francisco

ZSFG Department of Education and Training
Publisher/HostZSFG Department of Education and Training
Health Literacy Fundamentals - 2025 Dates
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This educational activity is designed to develop Health Literacy competencies among health care professionals and providers.
About this Event

DESCRIPTION: Health literacy describes the knowledge and skills associated with finding, understanding, and using information to improve personal health and to navigate health systems. This educational activity is designed to provide health care professionals with competencies and best practices they can use to foster health literacy among patients and promote organizational health literacy where they practice and provide services.

OBJECTIVES

1. Define literacy and health literacy and cite link between health literacy, equity, and health outcomes.

2. Recognize literacy demands in health and health care among the patients and communities for whom they provide care and services.

3. Identify the role of organizational health literacy in meeting the needs of patients and communities.

4. Demonstrate the application of Plain Language in verbal and written communication.

5. Utilize AI best practices to draft text for verbal and written communication.

6. Demonstrate how to use Readability Formulas to evaluate text in patient- and public-facing communication.

7. Articulate how utilizing learned strategies to promote personal and organizational health literacy can contribute to the advancement of health equity.

8. Describe 3 ways this educational activity can be applied to their professional practice.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital - DET (Learning Center), 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, United States

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