Some of the places where a patient can gain health literary are
What other places would you send your patients for health literacy resources?
Patient teaching resources address health literacy. Describe the ways these patients education materials meet the needs of the patients with with low health literacy.
1. What is health literacy and how can it impact patients? 2. What are some strategies a healthcare system or clinic can employ to improve health literacy? 3. Do you believe creating documents for patients to interpret (i.e. consents) without taking into consideration health literacy is an ethical issue (please explain your answer)
What can you do to improve your health literacy?
The common literature about health literacy implies that patients and families are primarily responsible for producing the level of health literacy experienced (as opposed to providers or health systems). True or False
discuss meausres that can be taken to ensure that the health literacy needs of patients are met.
Discuss three key issue or categories of patients’ health literacy and how it may affect health outcomes. Provide three key possible solutions or competencies healthcare providers can implement to improve communication or outcomes.
How have you used informatics to improve health literacy in your practice? If you have not used informatics in this manner, how could you use informatics in your practice to improve health literacy?
Health Literacy is becoming an important concept in the health care and public health fields. Discuss what kind of data might be helpful to determine where to focus health literacy campaigns (who would be your target audience and why?).
5. Please list four ways healthcare workers can encourage health literacy when working with patients. (typed please).
What does "health literacy" mean? How is this term defined by the Ad Hoc Committee on Health Literacy for the Council on Scientific Affairs of the AMA? Do you agree that an individual's health literacy is likely to be worse than their general literacy? Why or why not?