Thursday, January 23rd, 2003, One-day Conference Behavioral Approaches to Injury Control

[Luann D'Ambrosio]

Dear Colleagues:
On January 23, 2003, the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center at
the University of Washington is hosting a one-day conference
"Behavioral Approaches to Injury Control." The program includes nationally
renowned experts including Drs. Martin Fishbein, Matthew Kreuter and Andrea Gielen, 
in health behavior and opportunities to discuss the
practical application of behavioral sciences to the study and prevention of
injury. We are excited about the conference and believe it will be of
educational benefit to those in attendance. 

An additional important goal of the conference, however, is to develop a
research agenda for the behavioral sciences as applied to injury control. We
seek opportunities to develop projects at the Harborview Injury Prevention
and Research Center that straddle research frontiers in psychology, public
health and injury science. To assist us in this endeavor, we are looking for
help from some of the best minds in these fields.

Thus, we are reaching out to colleagues in injury control, psychology,
social work, nursing, public health and education, asking that you help us
to identify investigators in your own institutions who might both benefit
from and contribute to this conference. We would welcome your participation
in the conference and would appreciate your help in identifying others who
should attend.

You may register by printing out the attached brochure and mailing the
registration to HIPRC Behavioral Conference, 325 Ninth Ave, Box 359960,
Seattle, WA  98104 or online using the following link -
http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/baic_conference.htm. You may also register
by phoning Luann D'Ambrosio, manager for professional education, at
206-521-1534. Thank you for you help. Please contact either of us with any
thoughts or questions. 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Laura Larsson 
  To: Pacific Northwest Health Educators 
  Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 10:27 AM
  Subject: Resource>National Institute for Literacy


  Friends:

  I just added this to my Weblog (see my sig file under PH Blog for URL):

  National Institute for Literacy
  http://novel.nifl.gov/

  Some might wonder what an organization dealing with literacy is doing on a public health Weblog. It's here because so much of the health information that we provide to people is done in text format of some kind - brochures, HTML, MS Word documents, images containing text and so on. Those who cannot read cannot derive much benefit from printed
  content. This site aims to help with the problem of literacy.
       
  Created by the National Literacy Act of 1991, the main function of the Institute
  is "to ensure that all Americans with literacy needs have access to services
  that can help them gain the basic skills necessary for success in the workplace,
  family, and community in the 21st century." 
          
  Several particularly useful organizations of literacy information appear
  on their Website:

    a.. the Equipped for the Future program, which contains content standards for adult education 
    b.. the Literacy and Learning Disabilities section, which deals with research into adult learning disabilities 
    c.. the literacy directory, a National database of literacy programs 
    d.. Bringing scientific evidence to learning which covers major literacy 
    e.. issues from the research angle 
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Regards,

Laura Larsson
Digital Asset Manager

Clinical Faculty
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University of Washington
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