| 485 | Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
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| 4:15 PM-5:15 PM | Convention Center:314 |
| AAHE/Medical/Healthcare |
| Health Literacy: Scope and Consequence |
| This presentation will discuss the scope and consequence of health literacy as well as provide helpful tools for developing educational materials. Literacy matters in healthcare, potentially life-threatening or harmful mistakes can happen when patients cannot read or understand the information provided. Strategies for making improvements to lower the literacy level of health communications will be discussed. |
Keyword(s): community-based programs, disease prevention/wellness, medical/medical care
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| Presider: Wajih Ad Ahmad, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL |
| Speaker: Karen M. Nichols, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH |