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On health literacy and health outcomes: Background, impact, and future directions
Sobre alfabetismo y resultados en salud: antecedentes, impacto y tendencias
R.E. Rudda,
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rrudd@hsph.harvard.edu

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, O.R. Groeneb, M.D. Navarro-Rubioc
a Senior Lecturer on Health Literacy, Education, and Policy, Harvard School of Public Health, United States
b London South Bank University, Faculty of Health and Social Care, United Kingdom
c Responsable del Área de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Internacional de Catalunya, Spain
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evidence of revisions related to ease of use and clarity&#44; and reports of assessment processes and findings&#46; A starting point for many institutions is the design and development of critical texts that can have serious life and death consequences as well as legal and financial outcomes&#46; Such texts include directions on medicine labels&#44; discharge instructions&#44; as well as documents related to informed consent&#46;</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Furthermore&#44; emerging studies indicate that this mismatch exists for the oral exchange as well &#8211; health efforts to alert and educate the public over the airwaves as well as discussions between patients and a wide variety of clinicians&#46; Thus&#44; research findings indicate that the problem identified in health literacy studies is not entirely located in the literacy deficits of patients or members of the public&#46; Recommendations for &#8216;talk&#8217;&#44; so essential for information exchange&#44; 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by established protocols&#44; and by the physical environment within which they work&#46; Institutional norms put a heavy burden on the shoulders of those working within as well as on those patients and family members entering for visits and stays&#46; Health and health care institutions are complex structures and intense work places with multiple entrances&#44; busy hallways&#44; layered signs and postings&#44; and with the sounds of the foreign languages of medicine&#44; nursing&#44; public health&#44; and the varied allied health professionals&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0150"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">30</span></a></p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Initial studies conducted in health facilities to understand the barriers faced by patients have identified multiple issues that are similar across countries and locations&#46; They include problematic web sites and phone interactions&#44; incomplete navigation aides and poorly placed signs&#59; unmarked entrances&#44; passageways&#44; and destination points&#59; complex maps that do not match signs or place colors&#59; as well as jargon-filled forms for health and family background information&#44; for legal documents such as informed consent&#44; and for critical directions such as those for test preparations or for discharge and home care&#46; Recommendations point to the need for orientation booklets&#44; staff training&#44; way finding measures&#44; and improved documents that have been rigorously developed and tested&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0155"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">31</span></a></p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Best practices call for shame free environments where patients and visitors feel comfortable asking for help&#44; where people feel welcomed&#44; where help is offered to all&#44; where clear signs and postings ease the burden on patients and visitors&#44; where materials are provided and are well-designed for use&#44; 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and improving communication skills of health professionals can reduce unnecessary literacy related barriers and burdens&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0050">Implications for action</span><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Since the late 1990s&#44; researchers in health literacy have successfully documented the links between literacy skills of individuals and health outcomes&#46; Furthermore&#44; they have provided evidence that a good deal of critical health information is inaccessible and that health and health care environments are complex and difficult to navigate&#46; More studies are needed to document the positive as well as negative contribution of new communication approaches and enhanced environments&#46; Such actions would set the foundation for comparative analyses of change strategies and the development of gold standards&#46;</p><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">While we must call on the education sector to improve the literacy skills of our populations&#44; 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¿Es usted profesional sanitario apto para prescribir o dispensar medicamentos?

Are you a health professional able to prescribe or dispense drugs?

Você é um profissional de saúde habilitado a prescrever ou dispensar medicamentos