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Volume 17 • Number 2 • 2004

Connecting literacy, media and technology in the schools, community and workplace
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
  COVER STORY: Literacy, health, safety & quality - Connecting the dots
Cognitive errors in clinical decision-making: A cognitive autopsy
Adverse events in Canadian hospitals – May 2004
TO PONDER
  1. What is health literacy? Institute of Medicine Findings
  2. The need for information and support from health service providers: A story
LITERACY AND HEALTH: PRESCRIPTION FOR PROGRESS
Papers and summaries from Summer Institute 2003 (June 26 - 28, 2003)
  Introduction / Key Questions / What Participants wanted to address
  Critical Issues in Literacy and Health, Rootman
  Health literacy in other countries, Rootman
  The role of Adult Basic Education, Hohn
  Prescribing Learning, Lavender
  UK National Health Service, Braddell
  ORH-Stepping Stones, Braddell
  More Institute presentations
  IHA Health Literacy conference 2004
  Audiotapes and literacy

SENIORS AND LITERACY

RESOURCES: Seniors and literacy
SUMMARIES OF RESEARCH:
Literacy for women on the streets
REVIEWS: REALITY CHECK!
 
  CONFERENCE LISTINGS
  HAPPENING AT THE CENTRE
  ANNOUNCEMENTS

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The Centre for Literacy
is committed to supporting and improving literacy practices in schools, community and workplace. It is dedicated to increasing public understanding of the changing definition of literacy in a complex society.		 Literacy for the 21st century
Literacy encompasses a complex set of abilities to understand and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture for personal and community development. In a technological society, the concept of literacy is expanding to include the media and electronic text, in addition to alphabet and number systems. These abilities vary in different social and cultural contexts according to need and demand. Individuals must be given life-long learning opportunities to move along a continuum that includes the reading and writing, critical understanding, and decision-making abilities they need in their community.
The Centre for Literacy acknowledges the National Literacy Secretariat,
Human Resources and Skills Development, Canada, and Dawson College for their support.
The opinions expressed in articles are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
reflect the philosophy or policy of The Centre for Literacy.

Board Members of The Centre for Literacy 2004-2005

President: Elizabeth Walcot-Gayda
LD Consultant
Past President: Peggy Sangster
Coordinator, Quality Control, Montreal Children’s Hospital
Secretary /Treasurer: Andrew Mackay
Coordinator, Human Resources, Dawson College
Members:

Lynn Kiraly-Batist
Family Resource Librarian, Montreal Children’s Hospital

  Gloria Keenan
Centre Director, Place Cartier Adult Education Centre
  Natalie Kishchuk
Evaluation Consultant
  James E. Page
Education Consultant
  Catherine Rojas
Consultant
  Donna Varrica
Coordinator, Public Relations, Dawson College
  Linda Shohet
Ex-officio

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