tailieunhanh - Family Health and Literacy: A Guide to Easy-to-Read Health Education Materials and Web Sites for Families

Even when schools are free, poor children may be forced to leave in order to work. Children may need to provide extra house- hold income or care for younger siblings so that both parents can work outside the home. Conditional cash transfers have been used as effective incentives for parents to enrol their children in school in Latin America. Families receive money on the condition that their children attend school and go to health-care appointments (see Box 7, page 25). In addition, grants can go directly to teachers and to schools. In Nicaragua, teachers receive a small bonus for each child in the school, and half of the available. | Family Health and Literacy A Guide to Easy-to-Read Health Education Materials and Web Sites for Families Julie McKinney Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi Developed by World Education in collaboration with the National Institute for Literacy with a grant from MetLife Foundation Table of Contents What This Guide If About. 1 Acknowledgements. 2 How to Get Started. 5 Why is Health Literacy Important . 5 You Don t Have to be a Health Expert. 7 Introducing Health in the Classroom. 9 Adding an Action-Based Component . 12 How to Engage Students . 13 Using the Internet. 15 Collaborating with Health Organizations . 18 Preparing a Speaker. 20 Local and National Health Organizations to Contact . 24 For Health Educators How to Find Local Family Literacy Programs . 27 Teacher Support Resources . 27 Easy-to-Read Health Teaching Health by Topic. 33 Nutrition . 33 Childhood Health and Diseases . 39 Safety . .