Health Literacy Implications for Health Care Reform: Workshop Summary

by Theresa Wizemann, Institute of Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, et al.

Health literacy is the degree to which one can understand and make decisions based on health information. Nearly 90 million adults in the United States have limited health literacy. While poor health literacy spans all demographics, rates of low health literacy are disproportionately higher among those with lower socioeconomic status, limited education, or limited English proficiency, as well as among the elderly and individuals with mental or physical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309164168
• ISBN13: 9780309164160
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"