Health Literacy
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 10, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Health communication, health education, and health literacy are rooted in a common understanding of human communication and share the goals of enhancing human health, improving health outcomes, and reducing health disparities. We have an opportunity to mobilize...
by Jenna Ogilvie | May 30, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The impacts of unmet health-related social needs, such as homelessness, inconsistent access to food, and exposure to violence on health and health care utilization, are well-established. Growing evidence indicates that addressing these and other needs can help reverse...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 14, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Policy makers, government agencies, and community organizations seeking to improve health outcomes in vulnerable populations are paying increased attention to family engagement and health literacy as key elements of a population health approach. To capitalize on the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 31, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | Patient and family engaged care (PFEC) is care planned, delivered, managed, and continuously improved in active partnership with patients and their families (or care partners as defined by the patient) to ensure integration of their health and health...
by Laura DeStefano | Sep 19, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
About the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Series This publication is part of the National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative, which called on more than 100 leading researchers, scientists, and policy makers from...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 14, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction and Background From our perspective, dental caries continues to be one of the most common chronic diseases in the United States and globally, with individuals living in poverty and minorities being affected more than their more affluent peers. Dental...
by Jenna Ogilvie | May 17, 2016 | Commentary, Perspectives
Increasingly over the past decade, health literacy researchers and practitioners have been turning their attention to issues of numeracy, recognizing that numeric tasks related to a wide array of health activities have not been sufficiently examined or addressed....
by Jenna Ogilvie | May 5, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Individuals make decisions about health and well-being every day. Many of those decisions involve using and understanding numbers, and most of the decisions are made quickly, at home or at work, as a person goes about a daily routine. Even with adequate time,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 4, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Call to Action The field of health literacy has evolved over the decades. While early work focused on individual skills (and deficits) and specific products (brochures and documents, for example), we, the authors, have come to a greater appreciation that health...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 2, 2016 | Commentary, Perspectives
In early 2015, President Obama announced a $215 million investment in the 2016 budget to revolutionize health improvement efforts and disease treatment. The Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) is a new model of patient-powered research using big data to...
