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- ABE Curriculum Framework for Health
Developed by a team of Massachusetts teachers, the ABE Curriculum Framework for Health offers guiding principles, standards, and integration strategies for teaching and developing health curricula. The document provides a strong rationale for addressing health in adult basic education.
http://www.doe.mass.edu/acls/frameworks/health.doc - The Adult Literacy and Health Vision and Action Agenda
Commissioned by the NIFL National Literacy Summit 2000, this paper is designed to engage the field of adult basic education in focused thinking about health and adult literacy issues. A vision for health and literacy and action steps to move the field forward towards that vision are proposed.
- Healthy People 2010 (Objective 11.2)
This report of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services comes out every ten year and details objectives for improving the health of the nation. For the first time poor health literacy is identified as a barrier to good health and specific health-literacy related objectives are proposed.
http://www.healthypeople.gov/Document/HTML /Volume1/11HealthCom.htm - Literacy, Health, and Health Literacy: State Policy Considerations
In this article Marcia Hohn describes how five state policy-makers are supporting efforts to bring health and literacy together in their states. This artilce was published in Focus on Basics, Volume 5, Issue C, February 2002, which was dedicated entirely to the topic of Literacy and Health.
http://www.ncsall.net/?id=243 - State Official’s Guide to Health Literacy
This document reports the results of a nation Council of State Governments survey of health literacy efforts to assists state policy makers in addressing the problem of low health literacy.
http://www.csg.org/CSG/Policy/health/health+literacy/default.htm