[ORDiabCoalition] FW: Free Patient Aids in Diabetes Journal

[Rojo, Rosa]

This from Paul at LearningAboutDiabetes.org.
They have great low literacy materials.

Rosa Rojo RN BSN CDE
Diabetes Nurse Educator
Diabetes Program Coordinator
Tampa Family Health Centers
3402 N 22nd St
Tampa, Fl 33605
(813)272-6240 ext 123
Fax: (813)247-5591
email: rrojo at hcnetwork.org

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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Tracey [mailto:paul at learningaboutdiabetes.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:06 PM
To: Diabetes Mail List
Subject: Free Patient Aids in Diabetes Journal

DIABETES JOURNAL FEATURES WORK OF FAMOUS ARTIST IN FREE PATIENT AIDS

The latest issue of the medical journal Insulin® includes a new diabetes patient handout section featuring the work of the noted illustrator, Seymour Chwast -- co-founder and director of the famous Push Pin Studios in New York City.

Mr.Chwast's work often appears in well-known publications, including Time, Fortune, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His illustrations in the journal Insulin® are supporting the work of Learning About Diabetes, Inc., an online charity (www.learningaboutdiabetes.org) offering free diabetes self-care programs to the millions of people with diabetes who also have literacy or language problems.

Founded in 2006, the charity is the creative brainchild of the former medical communications executive and health literacy consultant Paul Tracey, of Bedminster, NJ, and Mr. Chwast.

A major goal of the charity is to study how art and design can improve health care communications to the less advantaged. According to Tracey, "Diabetes disproportionately affects the poor and the less educated, yet a large number of the consumer and patient diabetes education programs created today are not easily understood by these groups. With the help of talented artists and writers, we are exploring new ways to improve diabetes self-care messages and thus health outcomes. Health care costs for all of us can be reduced if we find more effective ways to communicate diabetes prevention and treatment skills to those who need them the most."

Learning About Diabetes, Inc., is an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) non-profit charity. Tax-deductible contributions to support the work of the charity can be sent to:

Learning About Diabetes, Inc.
7 Brightwood Lane
Bedminster, NJ 07921

Visit www.learningaboutdiabetes.org to see Mr. Chwast's work in the new handout Losing Weight with Diabetes or to download other free diabetes-care programs.

Insulin® is a Excerpta Medica, Inc. publication. ©2008 Excerpta Medica. All rights reserved.




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