Health literacy in primary care : a clinician's guide / Gloria G. Mayer and Michael Villaire ; with a foreword by Albert E. Barnett.
"At the intersection of health care delivery and practice, there lies a large area of patient care with no manual: how to provide the best care to patients who have a critically low level of comprehension and literacy. Because all patients play a central role in the outcome of their own health...
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New York :
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[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Understanding health literacy
- 2. Creating a patient-friendly environment
- 3. Assessing patients' literacy levels
- 4. Understanding and avoiding medical errors
- 5. Factoring culture into the care process
- 6. Improving patient-provider communication
- 7. Designing easy-to-read patient education materials
- 8. Principles of writing for low literacy
- 9. Using alternative forms of patient communication
- 10. Interpreters and their role in the health care setting.