The Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy convened a 1-day public workshop to explore the relationship bet
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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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Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and
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Although health literacy is commonly defined as an individual trait, it does not depend on the skills of individuals alo
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The proliferation of consumer-facing technology and personal health information technology has grown steadily over the p
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The aging and evolving racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population has the United States in the midst of a prof
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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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Informed consent - the process of communication between a patient or research subject and a physician or researcher that
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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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