The CFHC Co-op has partnered with Total Access Group to provide these valuable educator kits to our members. And now, they have the new and improved Contraceptive Educator Kit available for the great price of $129.00, which includes an array of contraceptives and demonstration models.
Total Access Group has the original basic Educator Kit and the Contraceptive Educator Kit available for purchase. To place your order, please contact Total Access Group at (800) 320-3716, and be sure to mention that you're a member of the CFHC Co-op.
For more information on the different types of Educator Kits available, please visit their website at http://www.totalaccessgroup.com
We've been getting alot of inquiries from folks we meet at conferences about educator kits. The Cooperative Purchasing Program has partnered with Total Access Group to provide these valuable educator kits to our members. And now, they have the new and improved Contraceptive Educator Kit available for the great price of $129.00, which includes an array of contraceptives and demonstration models.
Contraceptive Educator Kit
Total Access Group has the original basic Educator Kit and the Contraceptive Educator Kit available for purchase. To place your order, please contact Total Access Group at (800) 320-3716, and be sure to mention that you're a member of the Cooperative Purchasing Program.
For more information on the different types of Educator Kits Total Access carries, please click HERE to watch the video.
Public Release Date: 26-February-2008
The Institute for Healthcare Advancement’s Seventh Annual Health Literacy Conference, “Health Literacy in Primary Care: Best Practices and Skill Building,” will be held May 1-2, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency in Irvine, CA. Scheduled keynote speaker is Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, the 17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006). Donna Bell Sanders, MPH and Veronica Estrella Murillo, MPH, both of CFHC, will also be speakers.
A Call for Posters deadline has been extended to March 7, 2008. A call for Health Literacy Award Nominations has also been issued. Those doing research in health literacy or working on innovative programs or materials are encouraged to apply.
Earn continuing education credits at this annual health literacy conference, which provides 2 days of health literacy information you can use right away, including clinical tips and skill-building sessions.
New to health literacy and want to get up to speed on the issues? Join us on Wednesday night, April 30, 2008, for a free, one-hour pre-conference session, Health Literacy 101, for an overview of health literacy issues.
Register early to save. For more information, visit the website at www.iha4health.org or call (800) 434-4633. Save an extra $20 by entering the code CFHC2008 when you register. See the attached flyer for more information.
Alfred Shihata of FemCap gave a presentation at the HIV Prevention Conference in Atlana last month, and was kind enough to share it with us!
Click here to see the presentation!
Public Release Date: 24-July-2007
CHICAGO -- Medicare patients who couldn't read a physician's instructions, or who didn't understand what they read had a higher mortality rate than patients with adequate reading skills.
After adjusting for demographics, socioeconomic status, disability, and chronic conditions, patients with inadequate health literacy were 52% more likely to die during an average of 67.8 months of follow-up (P<0.001), according to a study reported in the July 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Continue reading "Literacy Linked to Survival in Medicare Patients"
Public Release Date: 18-June-2007
FDA plans to survey 1,200 people in shopping malls nationwide on their understanding of a condom's efficacy in preventing sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and unplanned pregnancies based on current labeling, the agency said on Thursday in a notice on its Web site, Bloomberg/Arizona Republic reports. According to the notice, survey responses will be "considered in FDA's condom labeling recommendations to provide important risk/benefit and use information associated with condoms in easily understood language."
Public Release Date: 16-May-2007
A new website featuring personal experiences of breastfeeding has gone 'live' in time for National Breastfeeding Awareness Week (May 13 - 19).
Dr Kath Ryan, Senior Research Fellow at Bournemouth University recorded the interviews with 49 women and two men from all parts of the UK for the new site - www.dipex.org/breastfeeding. The men featured are partners of women who were interviewed.
Continue reading "New Educational Tool for Women who are Thinking about Breastfeeding"