Asking patients to “Teach-Back” information during a health care consultation is widely recommended, yet little is known about patient and provider experiences using this method. Teach-Back has not previously been evaluated in a consumer telephone health service, a situation in which low health literacy can [...]
Adults with low literacy are less empowered to take care of their health, have poorer health outcomes and higher healthcare costs. We facilitated partnerships between adult literacy teachers and community health providers to deliver a health literacy training program in adult basic education classrooms.
People with low literacy and low health literacy have poorer health outcomes. Literacy and health literacy are distinct but overlapping constructs that impact wellbeing. Interventions that target both could improve health outcomes.
Ultimately, the goal of the field of health literacy and the purpose of HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice is empowerment—to help people gain more control over their health. Studies reported in HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice will vary, but our continuing objective is to improve individuals' and [...]
Properly informing target audiences is crucial in population-based screening programs. We aimed to evaluate the impact of information about CRC screening on attitudes and intended participation in a screening-naive population
Australian experts have banded together to launch an organisation dedicated to tackling unnecessary and harmful diagnoses, as the threat from increasingly sophisticated diagnostic technology grows. The collaboration, backed by doctor and consumer health organisations, aims to better grasp the scope of overdiagnosis in society and [...]
There is growing international awareness of overdiagnosis as a major challenge for heath systems and societies alike. It is a complex problem, and thus requires a multi-faceted response on a national scale. To address this, a group of prominent clinical, consumer, research and public organisations [...]
PREVENT OVERDIAGNOSIS IN HEALTH CARE AND OVERMEDICALISATION OF SOCIETY - STATEMENT ON AGENDA ITEM 5 (C): ADVANCING PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE WHO EUROPEAN REGION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. A statement from several major health organisations.
Ros Childs interviews Doctor Ray Moynihan, Bond University, about the push to address overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment as a result of early detection of disease due to the advances in medical technology.
Australia’s chief medical officer has backed moves to protect patients and safeguard the sustainability of the health system against the growing problem of too much medicine. Overdiagnosis is exposing healthy people to tests and treatments that are at best useless, and at worst trigger aggressive procedures with [...]