Asking patients whether they understand health information you've just provided on the spot isn't the best way to improve health literacy. A better approach, according to patient-experience expert ...

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 ...

Health literacy, “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” (Ratzan and ...

Warren Buffet once said “Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.” Buffet is an investor and business tycoon and likely referring to the risk associated with business ventures; however, this ...

This year Drexel has its first club focused solely on promoting health literacy throughout the community. This club, Health Literacy & Community Partners, is founded on the idea of bridging the gaps ...

As health information and services become increasingly digital, it is more important than ever that people can find, understand, evaluate and use health information in everyday life. A new study from ...

Margaret Danilovich: Assessing health literacy should be a routine part of every medical visit Any efforts to improve the health care system should make this goal a priority, she says Recently ...

A 29-year-old African-American woman with three days of abdominal pain and fever was brought to a Baltimore emergency department by her family. After a brief evaluation she was told that she would ...