Implications of health literacy for public health : workshop summary

Implications of health literacy for public health : workshop summary / Maria Hewitt and Lyla M. Hernandez, rapporteurs ; Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

"Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions. Nearly half of all American adults - 90 million people - have inadequate health literacy to navigate the health care...

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Corporate Author: Implications of Health Literacy for Public Health (Workshop) Irvine, Calif.)
Other Authors: Hewitt, Maria Elizabeth (rapporteur.), Hernandez, Lyla M. (rapporteur.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2014]
Series:Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Subjects:
Health literacy > United States > Congresses.
Medical care > United States > Congresses.
Health literacy.
Public health.
public health.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Healthy Living.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
Public health
Health literacy
Medical care
United States
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Background and overview
  • Current health department efforts in health literacy
  • Health literacy facilitates public health efforts
  • Supporting public health implementation and research
  • Reflections on the presentations and discussions
  • Meeting agenda
  • Speaker biosketches
  • A prescription is not enough: improving public health with health literacy
  • Revised questions for Nebraska survey.

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