Avenues explored for improving health literacy
December 10th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Cox
Washington — Complexity in the health care system is widely acknowledged as a barrier to effective care for many people, and now it’s time to simplify, simplify, simplify, said participants at a recent conference, Advancesin Health Literacy.
With researchers having already demonstrated some serious problems associated with poor Men’s health literacy — more emergency department visits and hospitalizations, and patients’ inability to follow physicians’ directions — they are now shifting their focus to finding solutions. Several were presented at the conference, co-sponsored by the American College of Physicians Foundation and the Institute of Medicine and held Nov. 28 in Washington, D.C.