Health Literacy: Past, Present, and Future: Workshop Summary

by Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Roundtable on Health Literacy, The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, et al.

In 2004, the Institute of Medicine released Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion , a report on the then-underappreciated challenge of enabling patients to comprehend their condition and treatment, to make the best decisions for their care, and to take the right medications at the right time in the intended dose. That report documented the problems, origins, and consequences of the fact that tens of millions of U.S. adults are unable to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309371546
• ISBN13: 9780309371544
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"