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

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Disciplina: 613/.07/1073
• Soggetto topico: Health education - United States; Literacy - United States
• Altri autori: Nielsen-BohlmanLynn
• 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""
• Titolo autorizzato: Health literacy
• ISBN: 0-309-13331-9; 1-280-17659-8; 9786610176595; 0-309-52926-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817488003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II