Improving health literacy is essential for promoting health equity, reducing preventable illness, and making health care more effective. Every part of your life shapes your health. Where you live, ...

Several evidence-based health literacy resources may be beneficial in health plan settings to improve organizational health literacy, personal health literacy, and health equity. Objectives: Numerous ...

The ACA will directly impact individuals and their interactions with the health care system in many ways. In the context of the commissioned paper (described in Chapter 2 and available in Appendix C), ...

“The relationship between health literacy and health outcomes is very important,” lead author of the report, Stan Hudson, told the University of Missouri School of Medicine. “We found that low health ...

LMH Health, 325 Maine St., is pictured in May 2021. During my residency in Denver, my pager buzzed with a message from the emergency department. I frowned with worry when I saw Mrs. K’s name listed ...

The national nonprofit has distributed more than 27,500 books in the Pacific Northwest this summer as part of its 35th-anniversary celebration. The books depict families of color, same-sex parents and ...

Health care literacy—the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to health care information—is a key component for positive outcomes in medical care. Concerns over health care literacy ...

It is important for patients to understand the information they need for making health decisions, yet studies have shown that a large segment of the population lacks the health literacy to do so.

A new report, 2021 Consumer Report: All Eyes on Health Care – But Not Enough on Health Care Literacy, revealed that 55% of consumers don't know that they can compare treatment or service costs before ...