Health Literacy Assessment PDF

ability to interpret the information of scenario assess: the food label what you think is a healthy diet combination of capacity and skills to access + use information to make...

ability to interpret the information of scenario assess: the food label what you think is a healthy diet combination of capacity and skills to access + use information to make decisions affecting health health literacy not an individual "deficit", the right of individual to undrestand health arena 1: Healthcare delivery systems research and quality improvement 2. Facillitation of shared decision making (SDM) between patients Affordable care act (ACA) of 2010 identify four areas to be and providers addressed: 3. Presentation of prescription drug benefits and risk information 4. Training of practitioners across all healthcare fields defines health literacy: degree which individuals has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process and understand basic health information and service to make appropriate health decisions find information and service communicate their needs + respond to information and services people need health information --> process the meaning and usefulness of the information and services also needs health literacy skills to: understand the choices, consequences and context of the information and services decide which information match their needs help people find information and services communicate about health and health care Peple provide health information, process what peple are explicitly and implicitly asking for need health literacy skills to: understand how to provide useful info and services decide which info work best for different situations  - all people have the right to health information --> helps make based on two core informed decisions National Action Plan (NAP) principles health services should delivered in ways easy to understand --> improve health, longevity and quality of life 1. Develop health and safety information: accurate, accessible, actionable 2. Promote changes in healthcare sys --> improve health infomation, communication. decision making and access to healthcare services 3. Incorporate accurate, standard-based and developmentally appropriate health and science information Goals of the national action plan to 4. Support and expand local efforts--> provide education, culturally and linguistically improve health literacy appropriate health information services in the community 5. Build partnerships, develop guidance, change policies 6. Increase basic research and development, implementation and evaluation practices and interventions--> improve health literacy 7. increase dissemination + use of evidence-based health literacy practices and interventions participate in preventive healthcare sys Good health literacy --> greater understand need for early detection and management of disease understanding of health status use healthcare services more effectively comply better with treatment plans less likely to get preventive screening less likely to immunize themselves against seasonal flu, pneumonia, preventable diseases in children Poor --> higher rates of mortality difficult taking medication properly misunderstood or not respond appropriately more trouble accessing health insurance  frequent use of the emergency department incur 4 times > annual healthcare cost (13000 do vs 30000 do) Adults with low heath literacy tend 6% more frequent hospital visits to spend 2 days longer in the hospital poor reading ability is the factor --> poor health literacy individual's ability to make sense of information in any form in which it is basic literacy presented -prose literacy ability to read sentances and paragraph interprets tables, forms, graphs + other structured Educational testing service (ETS) -Document literacy formats distinguished three types of literacy scales: use information that requires a mathematical -Quantitative literacy operation for interpretation -Subset of numeracy adding Core concept: scaffolding or remembering framework for using new information not judge anyone by appearance strive to communicate clearly with everyone confirm understanding with everyone use to manage talking points during public health emergency health literacy precautions three short sentences --> convey key message in message mapping 27 words should be written in sixth grade reading level each primary message has 3 supporting messages --> used when and where appropriate  attract the reader's attention hold their attention The center for medicare and clear and effective make them fell respected and understood medicaid services (CMS) materials being able to help them understand the messages in the material move them into action words per sentence and syllable per word --> part of formula --> determine "reading grade level" Flesch-kincaid grade level formula: (0.39 x average sentence length) + (11.8 x average number of readability syllables per word) -15.59 8.3 --> 8th grade reading level clarify and communicate to physicians the personal value they associate Patient decision aids (PDAs) with different features of treatment options The CDC'S Clear communication Key tool to evaluate draft materials and see if is working on severals levels index (CCI) main message and call to action laguage (7item) information design (3item) state of the science(1item) indes assesses material 6 area behavioral recommendations (3iteam) numbers (3items) risk (3itemss)