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Improving Health Literacy Within a State

Maria Hewitt, Rapporteur; Roundtable on Health Literacy; Institute of Medicine - Personal Name;

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 (IOM, 2004). The Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened the Roundtable on Health Literacy to address issues raised in the report, Health Literacy: A Prescrip- tion to End Confusion (IOM, 2004). The roundtable brings together leaders from the federal government, foundations, health plans, associations, and private companies to discuss challenges facing health literacy practice and research and to identify approaches to promote health literacy in both the public and private sectors. The roundtable also serves to educate the public, press, and policy makers regarding issues related to health literacy. The roundtable sponsors workshops for members and the public to dis- cuss approaches to resolve key challenges.

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Publisher: : ., 2011
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Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-309-21572-5
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