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November 3, 2017

UAMS Nabs Health Literacy Award at National Conference

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UAMS Health Literacy Award

Nov. 3, 2017 | The UAMS Center for Health Literacy won Best Poster in Health Literacy recently at the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare and Health Literacy Annual Research Conference held Oct. 8-11 in Baltimore. The conference was focused on both health care communication and health literacy, meaning the skills to find, understand and…


March 7, 2016

UAMS Center for Health Literacy Awarded $2.9 Million by National Institutes of Health

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK — University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Center for Health Literacy has received a four-year grant of $2.9 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to test the effectiveness of a diabetes education and health literacy program in patient-centered medical homes at UAMS regional centers across Arkansas. A patient-centered medical home…


January 11, 2016

UAMS Center for Health Literacy Introduces Online Plain Language Service to Simplify Health Information

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – A new online service that helps health care professionals make health information easier to understand for patients and the general public is now available through the Center for Health Literacy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Research has shown that there is a mismatch between the typical reading level…


October 28, 2014

‘Simple Selfies’ Draw Attention to Health Literacy

Holland Doran

Want to take a “simple selfie?” This question was trending at the UAMS Center for Health Literacy’s open house as the center took to social media in an effort to make health information simple.