Implications of health literacy for public health : workshop summary

Implications of health literacy for public health workshop 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (author)
Corporate Authors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.), author (author), Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Health Literacy, sponsoring body (sponsoring body), Implications of Health Literacy for Public Health (Workshop) (-)
Other Authors: Hewitt, Maria Elizabeth, author (author), Hewitt, Maria, reporter (Reporter), Hernandez, Lyla M., reporter
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press 2014.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Medical care > United States.
Health literacy > United States.
United States.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009820310906719
Table of Contents:
  • ""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Boxes, Figures, and Tables""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Background and Overview""; ""3 Current Health Department Efforts in Health Literacy""; ""4 Health Literacy Facilitates Public Health Efforts""; ""5 Supporting Public Health Implementation and Research""; ""6 Reflections on the Presentations and Discussions""; ""Appendix A: Meeting Agenda""; ""Appendix B: Speaker Biosketches""; ""Appendix C: A Prescription Is Not Enough: Improving Public Health with Health Literacy""; ""Appendix D: Revised Questions for Nebraska Survey""

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