How Health Check is organized

We designed Health Check for a variety of settings. Anyone who works with people with lower level literacy skills can use it.

Adult educators High school teachers Community Health Representatives (CHRs) or nurses Nutrition workers Youth workers

There are eight units. Each unit includes:

• a brief introduction for the instructor

• learning objectives

• a list of print, video and web-based resources suitable for both the instructor and the learners

• a reflection at the beginning of the unit, based on the learners’ own experiences or thoughts on that health issue

• a vocabulary list

• two stories, followed by comprehension questions

• reflection/discussion on the issues in the stories

• a variety of learning activities related to the topic, with references to the appropriate basic fact sheet

• a selection of basic fact sheets about the particular health issue

The idea is to start from the learners’ experiences and build on them.