Health Literacy Month goes digital
Health Literacy Consulting, a Natick-based company, has been celebrating Health Literacy Month in October for 11 years now, but this year they’re trying a new approach: They’re raising awareness through digital media storytelling.
Throughout the month, the Health Literacy Month Web site www.healthliteracymonth.org will post podcasts, songs, stories, and photo galleries celebrating the theme “Finding the Right Words for Better Health.”
In previous years the organization has encouraged smaller awareness-raising events, but this year Natick resident and founder of Health Literacy Month Helen Osborne decided to take a different approach.
At a storytelling conference last spring, Osborne said she saw NPR’s Jay Allison give the keynote address. Inspired by his powerful use of storytelling, Osborne said she decided it would be an exciting new way to educate people about health literacy.
“In today’s healthcare system we’re all being asked to do more and more and to take care of our own health,” she said, “so it’s all about understanding health information.”
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