Collaborative Health Literacy: Tools for Empowering Farmworkers
2:00 PM - 2:50 PMThu
Speakers
Bethany Alcauter, PhD
Program Director
National Center for Farmworker Health
Learning Objectives: ○Explain how low health systems literacy exacerbates low access to health care for immigrant farmworkers ○Compare how literacy about health systems differs from literacy about personal health among immigrant farmworkers. ○Identify existing cultural strengths and health knowledge among immigrant farmworkers and develop a plan for incorporating and reflecting this knowledge in tools, resources, and curricula developed for farmworkers.