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7 Health Literacy Research Contributions to the National Action Plan
Pages 49-58

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From page 49...
... • What is the role of health literacy research in health care reform? What are critical questions that feed into policy?
From page 50...
... These include health care redesign, health insurance reform, improving navigation and community­based participatory research, removing health literacy barriers to clinical trials, addressing disparities, health literacy measurement in national and other surveys, and pre K through 12th and adult education and health education. Davis said that one of her long­standing concerns involves the pervasive national prob­ lems with K­12 education.
From page 51...
... Putting health literacy research into practice has challenges. The Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit designed to help health care practitioners learn how to communicate more effectively with their patients has 20 very practical tools.
From page 52...
... Davis said her research and speaking engagements have taught her that health literacy is receiving attention in state health departments, local health care systems, and community clinics. Impassioned advocates at many of these sites have developed and implemented effective approaches, but they never get written up and published and, consequently, are not known.
From page 53...
... Davis said the most central questions are as follows: Does the goal of improving health literacy amount to improving clinical and public health communication and care systems? Will more precise data collection and comprehensive assessment help change the way health care is communi­ cated and delivered?
From page 54...
... At the same time, the spoken word delivered through the radio and television and in the exchanges between clinicians and their patients or clients are of critical importance to public health and to health care. Furthermore, as Apter and colleagues point out (2008)
From page 55...
... The NAP calls for program evaluation studies to explore barriers related to health communication, health systems, and the effects of purposeful change. The research agenda suggested by the National Action Plan calls for studies of oral communication skills, of math skills and numeric assump­ tions, of the practices and processes of health care, and of the communica­ tion skills of health professionals.
From page 56...
... DISCUSSION One of the major things we are trying to improve, said Dreyer, is how the health care system communicates with patients and gives them information. The NAP says this needs to be measured.
From page 57...
... Though not named, health literacy is a part of that. She asked Rudd for recommendations for the Joint Commission on ways to carry that forward to health care providers.


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