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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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press
[2014]
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Colección: | National Academies ebooks.
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Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44940130*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Background and overview
- Current health department efforts in health literacy
- Health literacy facilitates public health efforts
- Supporting public health implementation and research
- Reflections on the presentations and discussions
- Meeting agenda
- Speaker biosketches
- A prescription is not enough: improving public health with health literacy
- Revised questions for Nebraska survey.