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Promoting Health Literacy to Encourage Prevention and Wellness : Workshop Summary /
"Health literacy has been shown to affect health outcomes. The use of preventive services improves health and prevents costly health care expenditures. Several studies have found that health literacy makes a difference in the extent to which populations use preventive services. On September 15,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
National Academies Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Health literacy has been shown to affect health outcomes. The use of preventive services improves health and prevents costly health care expenditures. Several studies have found that health literacy makes a difference in the extent to which populations use preventive services. On September 15, 2009, the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy held a workshop to explore approaches to integrate health literacy into primary and secondary prevention. Promoting Health Literacy to Encourage Prevention and Wellness serves as a factual account of the discussion that took place at the workshop. The report describes the inclusion of health literacy into public health prevention programs at the national, state, and local levels; reviews how insurance companies factor health literacy into their prevention programs; and discusses industry contributions to providing health literate primary and secondary prevention"--Publisher's description |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 101 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-101). |
| ISBN: | 9780309215770 0309215773 9780309215787 0309215781 1283376334 9781283376334 9786613376336 6613376337 0309215803 9780309215800 |