| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 160 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps |
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Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf
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| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 system. Implications of Health Literacy for Public Health is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy in November 2013 that focused on the implications of health literacy for the mission and essential services of public health. The workshop featured the presentation of a commissioned paper on health literacy activities under way in public health organizations. Other presentations examined the implications of health literacy for the mission and essential services of public health, for example, community health and safety, disease prevention, disaster management, or health communication. This report includes the commissioned paper and summaries of the workshop presentations"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from resource home page (National Academies Press, viewed September 17, 2014) |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Health literacy -- United States -- Congresses
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Medical care -- United States -- Congresses
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Health literacy.
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Public health.
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Health Literacy
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Public Health
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public health.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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Public health
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Health literacy
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Medical care
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United States
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hewitt, Maria Elizabeth, rapporteur.
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Hernandez, Lyla M., rapporteur.
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Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Health Literacy, issuing body.
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| ISBN |
9780309303668 |
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0309303664 |
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