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Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
Pages 103-106

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... Appendix A Workshop Agenda Roundtable on HealtH liteRacy WoRksHop on MeasuRes of HealtH liteRacy Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:30 am–5:15 pm Room 100 keck Center of The National Academies 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 WORkSHOP AgENDA Objectives • To review existing approaches for measuring health literacy • To review health system level approaches to assessing health literacy • To provide a vision for what could be done in population-based measurement of health literacy 7:45-8:30 am Registration 8:30-8:45 Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop George Isham, M.D., M.S. Chair, Roundtable on Health Literacy 0
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... Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 9:00-11:15 Panel: Testing Individual Health Literacy George Isham, M.D., M.S., Moderator HealthPartners 9:00-9:15 Health Literacy Measurement: A Brief Review and Proposal Andrew Pleasant, Ph.D. Rutgers University 9:15-9:30 The Importance of a National Dataset for Health Literacy Marin P
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... University of Arizona College of Medicine 1:45-2:00 Discussion 2:00-3:00 Panel: Other Approaches to Health Literacy Measurement, continued Cindy Brach, M.P.P., Moderator 2:00-2:15 Measuring the Function in Functional Health Literacy Sandra Smith, M.P.H. University of Washington School of Public Health 2:15-2:30 Health Literacy and Cancer Prevention: Do People Understand What They Hear?
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... URAC Developing and Testing a CAHPS® Health Literacy 3:30-3:45 Item Set Beverly Weidmer Ocampo, M.A. The RAND Corporation 3:45-4:00 Promoting Effective Communication: The Joint Commission's Efforts to Address Culture, Language, and Health Literacy Amy Wilson-Stronks, M.P.P.
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