Halloween
Halloween turned out to be an awesome weekend. I did not go to State Street at all; I don't really like standing shoulder to shoulder with people, paying to look at other peoples costumes and freezing outside when I could be inside at a party. On Saturday night, we had a party at our house. At first there weren't many people there, and I was worried that we wouldn't make back the money we spent on our keg. A lot of people showed up though and we broke even. My boyfriend was down for the weekend. He went as Clark Kent one night (with a superman shirt under his dress clothes), and we have some pretty funny pictures of him pretending to fly. A couple of my guy friends went as seventies tennis players with extremely short shorts. I don't ever want to see so much of their white legs again! All in all, the weekend was a success, and everyone loved my wonderwoman costume!
Argument for paper
I have found a TON of research on the topic of health literacy. Quite a bit of this research seems to correlate with specific diseases, asthma and diabetes, specifically. This would make sense, because both of these are diseases that need to be monitored very closely, on a day to day basis. Understanding the importance of tracking blood glucose levels and keeping tight glycemic control or knowing how to properly monitor lung function as a measure of how well asthma is controlled requires a lot of knowledge about these diseases. It seems obvious that these diseases would appear in literacy research, because the repercussions of not understanding and controlling these diseases are severe. So, I think I am going to focus on these diseases specifically for my paper. My primary argument is going to be that both patients and health care providers are responsible for the correlation of low health literacy with poor health outcomes. I will be arguing for solutions (such as training providers with new communication tools and producing easier-to-follow directions and information for patients) that would help decrease the negative outcomes associated with low health literacy.
2 comments:
Ha. I like the Kent Clark costume idea. My parents went to a restaurant and their waitor was Kent Clark but they didn't really understand it. :) Sounds like you had a pretty good weekend though!
I would just like to say hell yeah to the guys who dressed up as seventies tennis players. I dressed up as an old school basketball player and so I had to rock the short shorts too and man was it amazing. Having an excuse to show off some white legs is just always a good time.
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