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National Health Literacy Seminar: Health Literacy, Training and Public Health

Wednesday April 28, 2010, 11.00am – 3.00pm
School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Baines Wing, Room 4.12, Leeds, LS2 9UT

Outline programme

• Reports from Leeds University Health Literacy (HL) research programme:
  -    HL and medicines information
  -    HL and lifestyle choices
  -    HL and the potential of complementary and alternative Medicine
  -    Measuring HL – what are we missing?
• Training for doctors  [US] – Jan Nowitzky, NIACE
• Change 4 Life and Obesity - Emma Strachan, Health Improvement Specialist (Food) and Alison Cater, Health Improvement Specialist (Childhood Obesity), NHS Leeds
• Update on HL accreditation - Dennis Carrington, Department of Health
• Panel discussion
  

Please either register for this event by logging into the Health Literacy website and selecting the Leeds seminar in the Events Calendar section; or email Lucy McDonald on mcdonall@lsbu.ac.uk if you would like to attend.

www.healthliteracy.org.uk/