The Quick Guide to Health Literacy
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The Quick Guide to Health Literacy National Prevention Summit |
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2 | Main Points
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3 | HEALTH LITERACY
Why Is Health Literacy Important? |
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4 | Percentage of Adults in Each Literacy Level: 2003
(image: diagram titled "Percentage of Adults in Each Literacy Level: 2003" illustrates the total number of adults with Basic or Below Basic health literacy to be over 80 million) |
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5 | Difficulty of selected health literacy tasks
(image: diagram titled "Difficulty of selected health literacy tasks" illustrates the average user has difficulty determining what time a person can take a prescription medication, based on information on the drug label that relates the timing of medication to eating) |
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6 | Percentage of adults in the Below Basic NAAL health literacy population
1 The "Did not obtain health information over the Internet" category does not include prison inmates because they do not have access to the Internet. |
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7 | Health literacy level and self-assessment of overall health
(image: diagram titled "Health literacy level and self-assessment of overall health" illustrating a parallel between level of health literacy and self-assessment of overall health; the lower the level, the poorer the overall health)
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8 | HEALTH LITERACY
Health Literacy at HHS |
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9 | Healthy People 2010 Health Literacy Objectives
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10 | What factors affect health literacy?
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11 | Quick Guide to Health Literacy
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12 | HEALTH LITERACY
Strategies for Improving Health Literacy |
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13 | 1. Improve the Usability of Health Information
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14 | 2. Improve the Usability of Health Services
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15 | 3. Build Knowledge To Improve Decision-making
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16 | 4. Advocate for Health Literacy Improvement
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17 | HEALTH LITERACY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | HEALTH LITERACY
Contact Information: |