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3357.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | ||||
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| Health literacy is an important issue in health care today, especially as patients are taking a greater role in obtaining information about their health. Nearly half of all American adults have difficulty understanding and using health information. While there is a large body of literature concerning health literacy and adults, few studies have focused on adolescents. The purpose of this session is to provide a summary of issues justifying the importance of studying health literacy and to offer suggestions for future research. Policy implications will be discussed as well as the importance of training health professionals to take consumer literacy needs into account. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: At the end of the session, the participant will be able to: (1) Learn about current knowledge concerning health literacy and adolescents; (2) Describe copy and design variables to consider when developing bilingual health education materials; (3) Define health literacy and understand the importance and challenges of health literacy within mental illness/serious psychological distress. | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Deborah Glik, PhD | |||
| 2:30 PM | Health literacy and adolescents Jennifer A. Manganello, PhD, MPH | |||
| 2:45 PM |  | Addressing the challenges of low health literacy: Creating easy-to-read public health education materials Lilliam Acosta-Sanchez, MPH, Karen Kroder, Wendy Mettger, MA, Aracely Rosales, BS | ||
| 3:00 PM | Impact of health literacy on seeking mental health treatment: Results from a critical literature review Tula Michaelides, MPH | |||
| 3:15 PM | Use of a Low Literacy Pictogram-based Intervention to Reduce Medication Errors in Low SES, Low Education Families: An RCT H. Shonna Yin, MD, Benard Dreyer, MD, Linda Van Schaick, MS Ed, George L. Foltin, MD, Cheryl Dinglas, BA, Alan L. Mendelsohn, MD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Public Health Education and Health Promotion | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA