Reports, Resources & Links

REPORTS:

• Taking Off the Blindfold: Seeing How Literacy Affects Health
  Report June 2004
  - View in PDF (190k)

• Literacy and Health Environmental Scan Summary:
  Examining the Level of Awareness, Programs and Policies in Nova Scotia’s Health Care Sector
  by Sherry McNeil-Mulak, October 2004
  - View in PDF (74k)

RESOURCES:

• Beyond Words, the health-literacy connection
  prepared by Doris Gillis, the Principal Investigator of the Health Literacy in Rural Nova Scotia Research Project and published by the Canadian Health Network.

• Coastal Communities Project Rural Nova Scotia
  www.ruralnovascotia.ca/

• The Guysborough Antigonish Strait Health Literacy Network: coming together to address health literacy. (PDF - 12k)

• Literacy Partners of Manitoba: Defining Links and Developing Partnerships between Literacy and Health
  www.health.mb.literacy.ca

• Health Literacy Awareness Initiatives, Nova Scotia Department of Health Primary Health Care

• For copies of the DVD Health Literacy: Making the Connections, please connect Eunice Abaga at 902 424 5950 or email abagaen@gov.ns.ca

LINKS:

• GASHA Reports on Follow-up to Findings
• The RURAL Centre, a CIHR funded Centre for Research Development

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