Funding Opportunities

Health Literacy Project Expansion and Replication


The purpose of this Health Literacy – Project Expansion and Replication Request for Applications (RFA) is to increase gains made by Health Literacy Demonstration grantees by expanding or replicating successful project outcomes.  

 This is an invitation-only RFA for organizations whose current or past programs show potential for expansion or replication.

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Grantees

Organization Amount Date
Curators of Univ. of Mo. $677,069 2009
Missouri State University
 $686,601 2009
Washington University
 $628,249 2009
Missouri Dept. of Mental Health
 $300,000 2009

 



Health Literacy News & Resources

The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion has created a health literacy resource page: Health Literacy Online: A Guide to Writing and Designing Easy-to-Use Health Web Sites. 


Health Literacy Missouri's website, www.healthliteracy missouri.org  provides users free access to an online library of health literacy materials collected by HLM.



Health Informing Smart Health Decisions (I-SHD) is a new health news service funded by Health Literacy Missouri and based in the Missouri School of Journalism. Read their press releases here.



For More Information

Thomas Adams
Program Officer
314.345.5534
800.655.5560
tadams@mffh.org
Health Literacy

Health literacy is defined as "the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions" (Healthy People 2010). Health literacy encompasses the skills of reading, writing, mathematics, listening, and speaking, and relies on cultural and conceptual knowledge.

Health Literacy Information

People with limited health literacy have less knowledge of disease management, report poorer health status, and are less likely to seek preventative services. This problem is pervasive - affecting approximately half of the people living in the United States. Poor health literacy costs the nation as much as $58 billion each year.
To address these issues, MFH has developed a Health Literacy funding effort. MFH and health literacy stakeholders are focusing on three goals in this effort:
  • improve the health literacy of Missouri's population in order to encourage better health decisions and healthy behaviors;
  • promote health literacy education and training for health professionals; and,
  • enhance communication between consumers and care providers.