Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity is the summary of a workshop convened in December 2013 by the Institu
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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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Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and
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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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The IOM held a workshop on July 28, 2008, to examine strategies for discussing health disparities in ways that engage th
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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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To receive the greatest value for health care, it is important to focus on issues of quality and disparity, and the abil
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The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy m
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Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic in
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Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration in the United States has skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, bot
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Health is influenced by a wide range of factors, many of which fall outside of the health care delivery sector. These de
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