Earn 1 CE Hour
Speaker:
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).
Objectives:
#Communication
Speaker:
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).
Objectives:
- Define health literacy and describe the prevalence of poor health literacy in the United States.
- Discuss the general characteristics, abilities, and challenges of those with poor health literacy skills.
- Describe two reasons why health literacy matters in the healthcare system.
#Communication