Title 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

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 108 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf 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 Summary "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, lessens the likelihood of receiving preventive care, heightens the possibility of experiencing serious medication errors, increased risk of hospitalization, and results in poorer quality of life. It is important for health care organizations to develop strategies that can improve their health literacy, yet organizations often find it difficult to determine exactly what it means to be health literate. How Can Health Care Organizations Become More Health Literate?: Workshop defines a health literate health care organization as "an organization that makes it easier for people to navigate, understand, and use information and services to take care of their health." In November 2011, the IOM Roundtable on Health Literacy held a workshop to discuss the growing recognition that health literacy depends not only on individual skills and abilities but also on the demands and complexities of the health care system. How Can Health Care Organizations Become More Health Literate?: Workshop summarizes the workshop"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Subject Health education -- United States Health services administration -- United States -- Congresses Health services administration. Patient education. Health Literacy -- organization & administration Health Services Administration Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration Patient Education as Topic HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference. MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine. Patient education Health education Health services administration SUBJECT United States Subject United States Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Hernandez, Lyla M. LC no. 2011279924 ISBN 9780309256827 0309256828 030925681X 9780309256810 1283636158 9781283636155 0309256844 9780309256841

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