| Preliminary Program subject to change |
| Health Literacy: Scope and Consequence |
| Structure | Medical/Healthcare |
| Description | 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. |
| Presider: | Wajih Ad Ahmad, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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| Speaker: | Karen M. Nichols, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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