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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817488003321

Titolo

Health literacy : a prescription to end confusion / / Committee on Health Literacy, Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, [Institute of Medicine] ; Lynn Nielsen-Bohlman, Alison M. Panzer, David A. Kindig, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2004

ISBN

0-309-13331-9

1-280-17659-8

9786610176595

0-309-52926-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Nielsen-BohlmanLynn

Disciplina

613/.07/1073

Soggetti

Health education - United States

Literacy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Independent Report Reviewers""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Tables, Figures, and Boxes""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 What Is Health Literacy?""; ""3 The Extent and Associations of Limited Health Literacy""; ""4 Culture and Society""; ""5 Educational Systems""; ""6 Health Systems""; ""7 A Vision for a Health-Literate America""; ""APPENDIXES""; ""A Data Sources and Methods""; ""B Commissioned Papers""; ""The Relationship Between Health Literacy and Medical Costs--David H. Howard, Ph.D.""

""Improving Chronic Disease Care for Populations with Limited Health Literacy--Dean Schillinger, M.D.""""Outside the Clinician Patient Relationship: A Call to Action for Health Literacy--Barry D. Weiss, M.D.""; ""C Sample Material from Selected Assessments of Literacy and Health Literacy""; ""D Committee and Staff Biographies""; ""Index""