Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 will result in significant changes to the U.S. health care syste
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The increasingly diverse ethnic composition of the United States population has created a profound and ongoing demograph
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Approximately 80 million adults in the United States have low health literacy - an individual's ability to obtain,
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Every year at least 1.5 million people suffer adverse effects from medication. These problems occur because people misun
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There is growing evidence from developed and developing countries that community-based approaches are effective in impro
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Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and
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Although efforts to reduce health disparities receive attention at the national level, information on the successes of s
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Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global
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Health literacy is the degree to which one can understand and make decisions based on health information. Nearly 90 mill
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On February 5, 2015, the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted a workshop to explore
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