Information Design and Plain Language: An Inclusive Approach for Government Health Campaigns

2021 ◽  
pp. 294-298
Author(s):  
Claudia Mont’Alvão ◽  
Livia Clemente ◽  
Tiago Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Information Design ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Plain Language ◽  
Government Health ◽  
Inclusive Approach

scholarly journals Designing bowel preparation patient instructions to improve colon cancer detection

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-121
Author(s):  
Guillermina Noël ◽  
Jorge Frascara ◽  
Clarence Wong
Keyword(s):  
Bowel Preparation ◽  
Screening Program ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Practice Variation ◽  
Information Design ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Plain Language ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Performance Specifications ◽  
Design Documents

Abstract Medical personnel usually write and design documents that inform physicians or patients about procedures or therapies. Document design, however, requires skills that are not normally applied, resulting in information that is often not used properly. This article describes a project developed by the Alberta Colorectal Cancer Screening Program. The goal was to help patients better prepare for their colonoscopies. The process started with an analysis of the existing documents, and the development of performance specifications based on the literature on legibility, reading comprehension, memorization and use of information, plain language, visual perception, page layout, and image use. The project included an iterative process of prototyping and testing that resulted in 23 design criteria. Each iteration was tested with users to ensure ease of use, completeness of information, and accuracy and clarity to facilitate adoption. The project helped reduce practice variation regarding bowel preparation in the province of Alberta, Canada. This project illustrates how information design can help healthcare organizations provide patient-centred care. Information design helps patients engage in their own caring process, by providing information that people can use, understand and apply. After 15 months of use, the document has been downloaded more than 48,000 times, suggesting a good physician reception.

Contributions of Information Design to Popular Scientific Communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-74
Author(s):  
Juliana Rocha Franco ◽  
Izabela Silva Pinho
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Information Design ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Plain Language ◽  
Scientific Content

In a world increasingly saturated with data, scientific communication's success in reaching its target audience is linked to its ability to organize and represent information. Through semiotics concepts, this chapter explores the possibilities of information design as a set of tools for planning the exhibition of scientific content effectively. Information design is an area of knowledge that focuses on the human component's concern and the ergonomic aspects of visual communication. The chapter brings two case studies on infographics and on how information design is applied in popular scientific communication. The research will show that information design, associated with the precepts of plain language, can offer substantial contributions to the work of those who intend to disseminate science to non-specialized audiences.

scholarly journals Public distrusts government health campaigns, experts say

BMJ ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 331 (7508) ◽  
pp. 70.8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Coombes
Keyword(s):  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Government Health

Promoting Hearing Loss Prevention in Audiology Practice

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Byrne ◽  
Christa L. Themann ◽  
Deanna K. Meinke ◽  
Thais C. Morata ◽  
Mark R. Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Sound Level ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Loss Prevention ◽  
Hearing Conservation ◽  
Prevention Services ◽  
Occupational Programs ◽  
Strategic Position ◽  
Public Health Campaigns ◽  
Self Protection

An audiologist should be the principal provider and advocate for all hearing loss prevention activities. Many audiologists equate hearing loss prevention with industrial audiology and occupational hearing conservation programs. However, an audiologist’s involvement in hearing loss prevention should not be confined to that one particular practice setting. In addition to supervising occupational programs, audiologists are uniquely qualified to raise awareness of hearing risks, organize public health campaigns, promote healthy hearing, implement intervention programs, and monitor outcomes. For example, clinical audiologists can show clients how to use inexpensive sound level meters, noise dosimeters, or phone apps to measure noise levels, and recommend appropriate hearing protection. Audiologists should identify community events that may involve hazardous exposures and propose strategies to minimize risks to hearing. Audiologists can help shape the knowledge, beliefs, motivations, attitudes, and behaviors of individuals toward self-protection. An audiologist has the education, tools, opportunity, and strategic position to facilitate or promote hearing loss surveillance and prevention services and activities. This article highlights real-world examples of the various roles and substantial contributions audiologists can make toward hearing loss prevention goals.

Corporeità, movimento e benessere: il potenziale educativo di itinerari motorio-sportivi inclusivi giovanili

2019 ◽  
pp. 3121-334
Author(s):  
Carmen Palumbo ◽  
Antinea Ambretti ◽  
Giovanna Ferraioli
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Personalized Learning ◽  
Barriers To Learning ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
School Activities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Teaching Learning

Over the past few decades, the adoption of an inclusive approach to education has stimulated a reflection on the educational value of body and movement within teaching-learning process in order to break down all barriers to learning and promote the full participation of young people to school activities. Indeed,body and movement represent an important didactic "medium" for developing individualized and personalized learning paths that take into account the specific needs and characteristics of students thus contributing to their global and harmonious development.

Theoretical and Methodological Elements of an Inclusive Approach to Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Antonello Mura ◽  
Antioco Luigi Zurru ◽  
Ilaria Tatulli
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Inclusive Learning ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Slow Evolution ◽  
Methodological Principles

The educative experience of people with disability leads the inter­na­tio­nal debate towards the value of inclusive learning contexts. Nonetheless, the theoretical and methodological principles of an inclusive education approach have to be outlined. Data collected using explorative questionnaires during a five-years survey in an Italian region's schools show a slow evolution of the scholastic context. From the perspective of Special Pedagogy, the qualitative investigation on three macro-dimensions (the diversity perception, the didactic and methodological means, the wellbeing of pupils) reveals an emerging development of solid awareness among teachers. Findings confirm that the inclusion processes at school are attainable only throughout a series of clear methodological elements: 1) a valorising attitude towards diversity; 2) an orienting learning process; 3) a plural and flexible use of both methodologies and strategies; 4) a collaborative work environment; 5) a continuous training process; 6) a deontological approach. These are the principles that allow teachers to support each student in the manifold itineraries of identity fulfilment, encouraging pupils to express their needs and to develop their abilities in a welcoming and participative context.

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