Promoting Health Literacy to Encourage Prevention and Wellness Workshop Summary (2011) / Chapter Skim
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3 Commissioned Paper on Integrating Health Literacy into Primary and Secondary Prevention Strategies
3 Commissioned Paper on Integrating Health Literacy into Primary and Secondary Prevention Strategies
Pages 7-12
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Vice President, Global Health Johnson & Johnson In this presentation, Ratzan offered a brief overview of the ideas pre sented in his paper, Integrating Health Literacy into Primary and Secondary Prevention Strategies (see Appendix C)
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Health and well-being are not primarily determined by the health care system; but the health care system is where most of the costs are. Pub Figure 3-1 fixed lic health professionals work to keep people out of the system by stressing the importance of primary and secondary prevention.
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One example of a scorecard currently in use in Minnesota is the D5 scorecard for secondary prevention of diabetes. It evaluates health based on five goals for living well with diabetes: controlling blood pressure, lowering bad cholesterol, maintaining blood sugar, being tobacco-free and taking aspirin daily.
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The health care system can help develop individual and population health literacy by creating health information that is eas ily understood, by training providers to work with populations of low health literacy, and by making the system more easily navigable. The educational system can contribute to a health literate public by increas ing patient skills through all levels of the education system and it can work with people with limited literacy, help equip families and communities with self care strategies, and prepare a health literate workforce.
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Two major challenges are to give individuals the basic skills necessary to navigate a complex health system and to work with the health system to make it more navigable. Addressing these challenges will require mul tiple stakeholders taking multiple actions, including those in the recom mendations just mentioned, Ratzan concluded.
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