Innovations in Health Literacy Research Workshop Summary (2011) / Chapter Skim
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6 A Call to Action
6 A Call to Action
Pages 39-48
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program announcement to fund research, which was one of the first efforts to begin to establish the evidence base for health literacy as a major public health problem. The National Assessment of Adult 1 See http://www.hhs.gov/ophs/news/20100527.html.
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2. Promote changes in the health care system that improve health information, communication, informed decisionmaking, and access to health services.
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Research should inform healthcare providers and facilities, public health officials, health communicators and educators, government agen cies, producers of health and safety information, drugs, and devices; and payers and purchasers (including employers)
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That is part of the proactive nature of health care that will be part of the transformation journey we are launching here. For 15 years, AHRQ has been in the business of supporting devel opment of patient experience of care surveys, namely the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®)
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A random ized trial involved a nurse and a pharmacist giving patients focused atten tion at discharge and continuing followup with patients after discharge as an approach to reducing readmissions and emergency department visits (Jack et al., 2009)
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AHRQ supports userdriven research to answer questions that wouldbe users are asking and that involves wouldbe users in research design. This means going beyond the peer reviewed article: creating tools and guides, writing trade press articles, training, leveraging opinion leaders, even pulling in Hollywood writers, since many people get their health information from television shows.
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This is more evidence of NIH's strong commitment and recognition of the relationship of health literacy to many of the goals that are part of our mission. The NAP Goal 6 -- Research that supports basic behavioral research and the development, implementation, and evaluation of practices and interventions to improve health literacy -- clearly represents a great oppor tunity for more basic research that will help in understanding fundamen tal, causal pathways.
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The NIH has a long history of funding support in the area of dissemination and implementation research.14 There is also an annual NIH conference sponsored by the office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research that focuses on the science of dissemination and implementation. Health care reform and renewed interest in com parative effectiveness research make this work particularly important.
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That is to expand the focus from one of health being delivered in the health care setting to health being delivered in the societies in which people live. How do public–private partnerships fit in to this, he asked, and where does the funding need to come from?
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AHRQ is trying to make health literacy a part of everything it does. It is trying to feed tools to empower partners to move forward, whether they are visiting the health care innovations site, downloading podcasts in Spanish for consumers, or looking at consumer guides.
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