How can health care organizations become more health literate? : workshop summary / Lyla M. Hernandez, rapporteur ; Roundtable on Health Literacy ; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
"Approximately 80 million adults in the United States have low health literacy -- an individual's ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information. Low health literacy creates difficulties in communicating with clinicians, poses barriers in managing chronic illness, less...
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Table of Contents:
- Attributes of a health literate health care organization
- Reaction panel 1
- Reaction panel 2
- Reaction panel 3
- Reaction panel 4
- Reflections on lessons learned
- The other side of the coin: attributes of a health literate health care organization
- Appendix A: The Other Side of the Coin: Attributes of a Health Literate Health Care Organization
- Appendix B: Agenda
- Appendix C: Speaker Biographical Sketches.