How Can Health Care Organizations Become More Health Literate?: Workshop Summary

by Institute of Medicine, Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030925681X
• ISBN13: 9780309256810
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"