Testing patients for levels of health literacy holds potential for improving physician-patient communication, according to a study published in Surgery. The study authors administered a two-minute ...

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 ...

An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a one-day public workshop that will feature invited presentations and discussion of the role and challenges for health literacy in health care reform. An ad ...

Health plans and health care organizations need comprehensive strategies to address low/limited health literacy as a foundational contributor to health inequities. Low or limited health literacy is a ...

International students face a range of health challenges in their daily lives due to language barriers, different cultural ...

Adult literacy advocate Toni Cordell recounts the story of feeling comforted when her doctor told her that her medical concern could be solved with an easy surgery. She agreed to proceed without ...

[I]nterventions aimed at boosting nurses’ positive mental health literacy, while simultaneously cultivating job crafting behaviors, may strengthen psychological resilience and mitigate burnout.

Thanks to the internet and technology as a whole, people are more informed and in control of their lives than ever before, able to access food, relationships, and entertainment at the touch of a ...

An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a one-day public workshop that will feature invited presentations and discussion of the role and challenges for health literacy in health care reform. An ad ...