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Improving Health Literacy Within a State
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Maria Hewitt, Rapporteur; Roundtable on Health Literacy; Institute of Medicine

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 addr…

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978-0-309-21572-5
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1-115
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