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From page 331... ... , 114�115 62 Academy for Educational Development, Adult population groups 153 percentage with literacy skills at NALS Academy of General Dentistry, 193 levels 1, 2, or 3-4, 64 Access to health care and preventive percentage with literacy skills at NALS services, 179�180 levels 1 or 2, 294 See also Language access Advertising and marketing Accreditation Council for Continuing FDA involvement in, 194 Medical Education (ACCME) , 159 a popular source of health Accreditation of health systems information, 123�124 Joint Commission on Accreditation of Advocacy organizations, 292 Healthcare Organizations, 14, 16, for African-Americans, 294�295 55, 199, 228 for the elderly, 292�293 National Committee for Quality for Hispanics, 293�294 Assurance, 14, 16, 55, 199�201, prison systems, 296 228, 278 professional associations, 296�297 Accreditation of medical education social service agencies, 296 Accreditation Council for Continuing African-Americans Medical Education, 159 advocacy organizations for, 294�295 Ad Hoc Committee on Health Literacy, literacy proficiency among, 63 36 National Association for the Adult Basic Education and Literacy Advancement of Colored People, (ABEL) Read the entire page →
From page 332... ... , 14, advocacy organizations, 286 53, 55 BHRFSS. See Behavioral Health Risk employers, 286 governmental and social service Factor Surveillance System agencies, 286�287 Billie, Alvin, 132 Bolivia, literacy proficiency in, 83 insurers, 286 organizations and systems acting to Bridging Disciplines in the Brain: improve, 286�287 Behavioral and Clinical Sciences, 224 Approaches to improving health literacy, 127�137 Building Effective AIDS Response approaches to increasing language initiative, 218 Bureau of Primary Health Care, 197, 219 access, 136�137 collaborative programs, 134�136 community opportunities, 127, 132�133 C nongovernmental organizations, 134 Asian Health Services, 133 CAHL. Read the entire page →
From page 333... ... , 14�15, 103, information, 250�299 119, 136, 153, 161, 192, 195, 267 approaches to improving health Health Communication Division, 218 literacy, 250�253 "Programs-That-Work," 148 federal funding for health literacy over School Health Policies and Programs a 10-year period, 254 Study 2000, 143 field lessons, 250�253 Task Force on Guidelines for Committee on Comprehensive School Community Preventative Services, Health Programs in Grades K-12, 127 146 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Committee on Health Literacy, 3, 26�27, (CMS) , 100n, 135, 193�194 243 Centro Latino de Salud, Educaci�n y First Workshop hosted by, 246 Cultura, 133 Second Workshop hosted by, 248 Charlson Comorbidity Index, 90�91 Third Workshop hosted by, 249 Children's Partnership, 124 Commonwealth fund, 26 Chronic Care Model, 173, 268�271, 274� Communication techniques 275, 279 office-based clinician-patient, 271�272 shaping for patients with limited health personal, 219�220 literacy, 274�277 technology-based, 215�218 Chronic disease care and self- Community-based interventions, published management, 171�173 studies of, 128�133 chronic disease management program, Community factors 222 effect on chronic disease outcomes, model for improvement of, 279 274 Chronic disease outcomes opportunities to improve health community and environmental factors, literacy, 127, 132�133 274 Complexity of health information, 122� effect of limited health literacy on, 123 270�274 Components of literacy, 38 home-based monitoring and clinical Conceptual framework for health literacy, support, 272�274 32�35 office-based clinician�patient culture and society, 33�34 communication, 271�272 education system, 34�35 Read the entire page →
From page 334... ... See Health expenditures Council of Chief State School Officers, scope of health literacy, 36�37 State Collaborative on Assessment Definition of literacy, 37�40 basic print literacy, 38�39 and Student Standards, 152 Council of State Governments, 198, 251 components of literacy, 38 CRISP database, 195, 254 functionality of all literacy, 39�40 literacy for different types of text, 39 Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Demographic associations, with limited Century, 12, 26, 177, 228 literacy, 62�65 Department of Cancer Control and Cultural competence, 112�113 cultural awareness, 112 Population Science, Portfolio cultural encounter, 112 Management Application software, 254 cultural knowledge, 112 cultural skill, 112 Disease registries, 269 Cultural languages, traditional, 114�115 Document literacy, and sample items from the National Adult Literacy Survey, Culture dissociation of culture, meaning, and 312�319 health literacy, measures for, 118� 119 E language and meaning, in the context of health literacy, 115�118 "Ecology" of health service organizations, mass culture, 119�126 169 meaning and language, in the context Economic factors, and health, 20�21 of health literacy, 115�118 Education for health professionals, 157� traditional culture, 110�119 160 Culture and society, 9�10, 108�141 continuing education approaches, 159� health literacy in, 33�34 160 mass culture, 119�126 curricular approaches, 158�159 opportunities for intervention in, 9�10, Educational materials 108 grade-level measures of, 47 opportunities to improve health tailored to health literacy in the health literacy, 126�137 system, 221�224 traditional culture, 110�119 Read the entire page →
From page 335... ... See Food and Drug Administration Federal government, 191�198 175 patient safety and health-care quality, Agency for Healthcare Research and 176�179 Quality, 197 Centers for Disease Control and Employers, 290�292 Encounters, cultural, 112 Prevention, 195 England, literacy in, 61 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 193�194 Environmental factors, effect on chronic disease outcomes, 274 Department of Veterans Affairs, 197� Epidemiology of limited health literacy, 198 Food and Drug Administration, 194�195 65�81 association of limited health literacy, funding for health literacy over a 10 81�103 year period, 254 Health Resources and Services and health literacy skills among various populations, 70�81 Administration, 196�197 studies of limited health literacy, 67� National Institutes of Health, 195�196 Office of the Secretary, Office of 69, 80 ERIC. See Educational Resources Disease Prevention and Health Information Center Promotion, 192�193 Field lessons, 250�253 Evidence-based approaches, to improving health literacy, 126�127 Financial associations, of limited health Excerpts literacy, 7�8, 100�103 First Workshop, hosted by the Committee from the National Adult Literacy Survey, 308�322 on Health Literacy, 246 Flesch-Kincaid Reading Grade Level, 47 Read the entire page →
From page 336... ... , 100, 291 Foundation for Informed Medical See also Centers for Medicare & Decision Making, 217 Medicaid Services Friends, a popular source of health Health-care settings, interventions in, information, 125 206�213 Fry Readability Scale, 47, 201 Health Communication Division (CDC) , Functional literacy 218 functionality of all literacy, 39�40 Health content, incorporating into adult measures of, 49�50 education programs, 156�157 Health contexts, literacy skill demands of, 41, 43 G Health Education Assessment Project, 152 Gallup Organization polls, 121, 146 Health education programs sources of health information reported K-12, 143�146 in, 121 opportunities for, 148�149 Gathering Place, 132 Health expenditures, 181�182 Generating literacy, 45 "Health Framework for California's Georgia Academy of Family Physicians, Public Schools, Kindergarten 297 through Grade Twelve," 153 Geriatric Depression Scale, 84�85, 88�89 Health Information National Trends GEs. Read the entire page →
From page 337... ... See Health Interview Survey Health Literacy Coalition, 160 Hispanics Health Literacy Educational Kit, 160 advocacy organizations for, 293�294 Health literacy framework, potential cultural language of, 116�118 points for intervention in, 5, 34 literacy proficiency among, 63 Health literacy instruction, strategies for, Mexican American Legal Defense and 149�151 Educational Fund, 293 Health literacy measures, 50�51 National Council of La Raza, 293 Health literacy-related activities, frequency National Hispanic Medical of doing, 203 Association, 293�294 Health literacy skills HIV/AIDS Bureau, 197, 218 among various populations, Home-based monitoring and clinical epidemiology of, 70�81 support, effect on chronic disease health-related associations of, 84�99 outcomes, 272�274 Health-literate America, vision for, 12�14, Ho'oponopono process, 175 240�242 Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Health on the Net Foundation Code of 88�89 Conduct, 273 Howard, David H., 8, 101, 256�266 Health Professions Network, 159 HRSA. See Health Resources and Services Health-related associations, of health Administration literacy skills, 84�99 Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Read the entire page →
From page 338... ... , 47, 65, 78�79, with Limited English Proficiency, 100 August 2000," 114n Insurers, 285�290 "Improving Chronic Disease Care for Medicaid, 288�290 Populations with Limited Health Medicare, 285, 287�288 Literacy," 171n, 267�284 Tricare, 285, 290 Chronic Care Model, 268�270 Integrating literacy, 44 effect of limited health literacy on Interagency Education Research Initiative, chronic disease outcomes, 270�274 15, 150�151, 161 a framework based on health literacy International Adult Literacy Surveys and related research, 271 (IALS) , 6, 45, 49, 52, 61 measuring progress, 277�278 International Reading Association, 50 shaping the chronic care model for Internet, 119 patients with limited health a popular source of health literacy, 274�277 information, 125�126 Improving Diabetes Efforts across Intervention in the health literacy Language and Literacy project, 218 framework Improving health literacy opportunities for, 9�12 collaborative programs, 134�136 potential points for, 5, 34 combined approaches, 220�221 samples of published studies of, 206� community-based interventions, 128� 213 133 IOM. Read the entire page →
From page 339... ... , 113� Marketing health information, 123�124 114 Mass culture, 119�126 Limited health literacy, 6�9, 59�107 advertising and marketing, 123�124 associations of, 7, 81�103 family and friends, 125 financial associations of, 7�8 Internet, 125�126 studies of, 67�69, 80 news media, 123 Limited health literacy's effect on chronic ways people obtain and use health disease outcomes, 270�274 information, 120�126 community and environmental factors, Materials 274 grade-level measures of, 47 home-based monitoring and clinical tailored to health literacy in the health support, 272�274 system, 221�224 office-based clinician-patient Maternal and Child Health Bureau, 197 communication, 271�272 MBS. See Medicare Beneficiaries Survey Limited literacy, demographic associations MCCAP. Read the entire page →
From page 340... ... , article "Swimmer completes 11, 15, 143�145, 152, 161 Manhattan marathon" used in, 309 National Health Objectives, 148 bank deposit slip used in, 320 National Hispanic Medical Association, bus schedule used in, 318 293�294 discrimination article used in, 311 National Immunization Program, 195 document literacy and sample items, National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) Read the entire page →
From page 341... ... , 147 disease outcomes, 271�272 Office of Civil Rights, 135 National Science Foundation, 15, 150� 151, 161 National Standards to Protect the National Science Teachers Association, Privacy of Personal Health Information, 192 146, 150 National Standards to Protect the Privacy Office of Disease Prevention and Health of Personal Health Information, Promotion (OPHP) , 192�193 Office of Minority Health, 14, 136 192 National Survey on Health Literacy Center for Linguistic and Cultural Initiatives, 198 Competence in Health Care, 114 Office of National Drug Control Policy, National Urban League, 295 National Youth Anti-Drug Media National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, 124 Campaign, 124 Office of the Secretary, Office of Disease Native Americans cultural language of, 114�115 Prevention and Health Promotion, literacy proficiency among, 63 192�193 Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Native Hawaiians, understanding of healing, 175 15, 154�155 NCI. Read the entire page →
From page 342... ... �, 47�51, 66� Portfolio Management Application 68, 70�73, 76�79, 81�89, 92�95, 98�100, 195, 219, 302�303 software, 254 Prescription medication instructions, in scores and grade equivalents for, 303 Bahasa Malaysia, mock-up of, 60 Readability, of informed consent documents, 189 Priority Areas for National Action in Quality Improvement, 13, 26, 168� Reading comprehension, sample items 169, 240 from the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults, 305�307 Read the entire page →
From page 343... ... See State Collaborative on news media, 123 Assessment and Student Standards Speaking of Health, 20, 112, 217, 221 Schillinger, Dean, 267�284 Standard of reasonable care, 184�186 SCHIP. See State Children's Health Standard scores, 46 Insurance Program Stanines, 46 School Health Education Profiles Study, 145 State Children's Health Insurance Program School Health Policies and Programs (SCHIP) Read the entire page →
From page 344... ... , 2, 14, 16, 20, 25, examples of ongoing approaches using, 55, 103, 119, 149, 181, 193, 228 218 National Standards for Culturally and and health literacy in the health Linguistically Appropriate Services system, 215�218 in Health Care, 109 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Office for Civil Rights, 135 (TANF) , 135 Office of the Actuary, 181n Test of Functional Health Literacy in Task Force on Community Preventive Adults (TOFHLA) Read the entire page →
From page 345... ... See World Health Organization sources of health information reported "Who's in the Driver's Seat? Increasing in a Gallup Poll, 121 Consumer Involvement in Health USP. Read the entire page →

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... , 114�115 62 Academy for Educational Development, Adult population groups 153 percentage with literacy skills at NALS Academy of General Dentistry, 193 levels 1, 2, or 3-4, 64 Access to health care and preventive percentage with literacy skills at NALS services, 179�180 levels 1 or 2, 294 See also Language access Advertising and marketing Accreditation Council for Continuing FDA involvement in, 194 Medical Education (ACCME) , 159 a popular source of health Accreditation of health systems information, 123�124 Joint Commission on Accreditation of Advocacy organizations, 292 Healthcare Organizations, 14, 16, for African-Americans, 294�295 55, 199, 228 for the elderly, 292�293 National Committee for Quality for Hispanics, 293�294 Assurance, 14, 16, 55, 199�201, prison systems, 296 228, 278 professional associations, 296�297 Accreditation of medical education social service agencies, 296 Accreditation Council for Continuing African-Americans Medical Education, 159 advocacy organizations for, 294�295 Ad Hoc Committee on Health Literacy, literacy proficiency among, 63 36 National Association for the Adult Basic Education and Literacy Advancement of Colored People, (ABEL)

Index Pages 331-346

Index
Pages 331-346