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Title Promoting Health Literacy to Encourage Prevention and Wellness : Workshop Summary / Lyla Hernandez and Suzanne Landi, rapporteurs ; Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Published Washington, DC : National Academies Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 101 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- The role of health literacy in primary and secondary prevention -- Commissioned paper on integrating health literacy into primary and secondary prevention strategies -- Panel reactions -- Intersection of health literacy and public health prevention programs and information for enrollees -- Industry contributions to providing health
Summary "Health literacy has been shown to affect health outcomes. The use of preventive services improves health and prevents costly health care expenditures. Several studies have found that health literacy makes a difference in the extent to which populations use preventive services. On September 15, 2009, the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy held a workshop to explore approaches to integrate health literacy into primary and secondary prevention. Promoting Health Literacy to Encourage Prevention and Wellness serves as a factual account of the discussion that took place at the workshop. The report describes the inclusion of health literacy into public health prevention programs at the national, state, and local levels; reviews how insurance companies factor health literacy into their prevention programs; and discusses industry contributions to providing health literate primary and secondary prevention"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-101)
Notes English
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Subject Health education -- United States -- Methods
Health promotion -- United States
Communication in medicine -- United States
Telecommunication in medicine -- United States
Telecommunication in medicine.
Consumer Health Information
Communication Barriers
Educational Status
Health Education -- methods
Health Education -- standards
Telemedicine
Remote Consultation
MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
Communication in medicine
Health education
Health promotion
Telecommunication in medicine
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Methods (Music)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Hernandez, Lyla M
Landi, Suzanne (Suzanne N.)
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Health Literacy
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Population Health and Public Health Service
LC no. 2012471896
ISBN 9780309215770
0309215773
9780309215787
0309215781
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9781283376334
9786613376336
6613376337
0309215803
9780309215800