A project out of North Dakota is teaching future health professionals how to write up health information in plain language for rural newspaper audiences, the Rural Health Information Hub reports. The Targeted Rural Health Education project aims to improve rural health through better health literacy, a skill the pandemic has shown us is vital to public well-being. To that end, the article includes a blueprint for the program so other medical schools can replicate it.
Through the project, students in the University of North Dakota's School of Medicine and Health Sciences are introduced to health literacy concepts and tools. "Participants write a newspaper-friendly, data-informed, public health-focused education article that embraces health literacy's emphasis on the use of plain language. Because rural newspapers are an important disseminators of information — including health information — rural newspaper editors are the strategic project partners," RHIH reports. Since the project's launch in 2017, nearly 30 students have published plain-language health education articles in one or more rural publications in Montana, North Dakota and Wisconsin.
The project is a collaboration of the North Dakota Rural Health Association, the University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health, and the UND Department of Family and Community Medicine .
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