Health Literacy 101
Track: Communication
Earn 1 CE Credit (Expires May 2024)
Learning Objectives
1. Define health literacy and describe the prevalence of poor health literacy in the United States.
2. Discuss the general characteristics, abilities, and challenges of those with poor health literacy skills.
3. Discuss the general characteristics, abilities, and challenges of those with poor health literacy skills.
Presenter:
Michael Villaire, MSLM, President/CEO - Institute for Healthcare Advancement
This session will provide an overview of the scope of low health literacy, including frequencies among the general population, general characteristics, abilities and challenges of persons with low health literacy, and the cost of poor health literacy (both in terms of human suffering and dollars).