Engaging Health Literacy Partners to Advance Health Equity in Rural Communities: One Community’s Approach to Better Understanding Health Literacy and Access in a Rural-border Region
Track: Community Engagement
Earn 1 CE Credit (Expires May 2024)
Learning Objectives
1. Explain the challenges faced by rural healthcare systems in supporting national/international health literacy practices.
2. Recognize the importance of engaging with current and future healthcare professionals to address health literacy as a health equity issue.
3. Apply the ideas and concepts presented through case study to your own health literacy practices and settings to engage a multidisciplinary health literacy team.
Presenter(s)
Shiloh A. Williams, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, CNE, Assistant Professor - San Diego State University
Session summary: The call for the need to address health literacy as a necessary component of health policy development has been clear, but rural healthcare systems struggle to implement sustainable efforts to address low health literacy in the populations they serve. Further, health literacy is not a critical component of professional healthcare provider curriculum, resulting in providers with limited or no understanding of health literacy and its impact on patient engagement and care outcomes. In this session, participants will be able to brainstorm ways in which they can engage both traditional and nontraditional health literacy partners and continue to move health literacy to the forefront of our healthcare system.
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