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Facilitating Health Communication with Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Populations Through the Use of Health Literacy and Community Engagement Strategies Proceedings of a Workshop (2017) / Chapter Skim
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... To better understand how the public health and health care communities can meet the challenges of serving an increasingly diverse population, the Roundtable on Health Literacy created an ad hoc committee2 to plan and conduct a public workshop on facilitating health communication with immigrant, refugee, and migrant populations through the use of health 1  This section is based on the presentation by Bernard Rosof, chief executive officer of the Quality in Healthcare Advisory Group, and the statements are not endorsed or verified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2  The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop, and the Proceed ings of a Workshop was prepared by the workshop rapporteur as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.
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... "The wide variety of language and cultures and the lack of understanding of how to effectively use public health and health care services make it imperative that health literacy approaches be used to align health system demands with individual skills, individual abilities, and individual knowledge," said Rosof. Health literate approaches, he added, will provide linguistically and culturally appropriate materials and services, which in turn will contribute to better care coordination, adherence to care plans, contribute to person and family-centered care, and to achieving the quadruple aim of providing better care, improving the health of the community and the population, making care affordable, and creating joy in practice.
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... Develop key partnerships to help facilitate change, influence behavior, and generate interest in health literacy; and (4) Support changes to improve public health professional health literacy skills." See https://www.cdc.gov/ healthliteracy/training/page1619.html (accessed June 5, 2017)
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