AHRQ Patient Safety Network: Implications of Health Literacy for Public Health: Workshop Summary.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network





Implications of Health Literacy for Public Health: Workshop Summary.

Hewitt M, Hernandez LM; Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2014. ISBN: 9780309303651.

Health literacy can affect patients' ability to understand directions, ask good questions, and participate in care. Framing health literacy as a public health challenge, this report describes efforts to address it in three states and explores implementation and research to improve it across the United States.

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