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How Can Health Care Organizations Become More Health Literate?: Workshop Summary
How Can Health Care Organizations Become More Health Literate Workshop Summary
Author: Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780309256810
ISBN-10: 030925681X
Publication Date: 7/19/2012
Pages: 108
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Publisher: National Academies Press
Book Type: Paperback
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