Research Catalog

Title

Implications of health literacy for public health : workshop summary / Maria Hewitt and Lyla M. Hernandez, rapporteurs, Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Publication

• Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2014]
• ©2014

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Hewitt, Maria Elizabeth.
• Hernandez, Lyla M.
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Health Literacy.
• Implications of Health Literacy for Public Health (Workshop) (2013 : Irvine, Calif.)

Description

xvi, 160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 23 cm

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 system. Implications of Health Literacy for Public Health is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy in November 2013 that focused on the implications of health literacy for the mission and essential services of public health. The workshop featured the presentation of a commissioned paper on health literacy activities under way in public health organizations. Other presentations examined the implications of health literacy for the mission and essential services of public health, for example, community health and safety, disease prevention, disaster management, or health communication. This report includes the commissioned paper and summaries of the workshop presentations"--Publisher's description.

Alternative Title

Health literacy for public health

Subject

• Health literacy > United States > Congresses
• Medical care > United States > Congresses
• Health Literacy
• Public Health

Genre/Form

Congress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available via the World Wide Web.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780309303651
• 0309303656

OCLC

• ocn892030096
• 892030096
• SCSB-5766043

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries