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An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a one-day public workshop that will feature invited presentations and discussion of community-based health literacy interventions. Potential areas of focus include the range of community-based health literacy interventions that currently exist, research related to community-based health literacy interventions, and best practices in community-based health literacy interventions.
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·2018
In its landmark report, Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, the Institute of Medicine noted that there are 90 million adults in the United States with limited health literacy who cannot fully benefit from what the health and health care systems have to offer. Since the release of that...
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An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a one-day public workshop that will feature invited presentations and discussion of community-based health literacy interventions. Potential areas of focus include the range of community-based health literacy interventions that currently exist, research related to community-based health literacy interventions, and best practices in community-based health literacy interventions. The workshop will also include the presentation of a commissioned paper on community-based health literacy interventions. The committee will define the specific topics to be addressed, develop the agenda, and select and invite speakers and other participants. A proceedings of the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.
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Department of Health and Human Services
Private: For Profit
Private: Non Profit
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Health and Medicine Division
Lead
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
Lead