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The Roundtable on Health Literacy hosted a one-day workshop addressing and sharing successful or best practices and useful tools, for health literacy implementation in organizations. It also developed a network of implementers for future collaboration and problem-solving.
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Workshop
·2013
Organizational Change to Improve Health Literacy is the summary of a workshop convened in April 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice Roundtable on Health Literacy. As a follow up to the 2012 discussion paper Ten Attributes of a Health Literate Healt...
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Description
An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a public workshop that will feature invited presentations from and discussions with health literacy implementers, i.e., people from around the country whose job it is to integrate health literacy policy and practice in health care systems and make their organizations more health literate. The committee will develop the workshop agenda, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. The workshop will inform future meetings of the IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy and enable its members to:
1. Learn about implementation approaches (e.g., how to overcome resistance/obstacles, how to garner resources),
2. Share tools that are useful in implementing specific health literacy strategies,
3. Create a network of health literacy implementers that can share information about health literacy innovations and problem solving,
4. Establish lines of communication between health literacy implementers and roundtable members, and
5. Inform the roundtable and its members about needs of health literacy implementers in order to inform future roundtable activities.
Collaborators
Sponsors
Department of Health and Human Services
Private: For Profit
Private: Non Profit
Major units and sub-units
Health and Medicine Division
Lead
Institute of Medicine
Lead
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
Lead