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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2011. Improving Health Literacy Within a State: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13185.
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Appendix A

Acronyms

AAMC

Association of American Medical Colleges

ACGME

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

ADAPT

Adaptation and Dissemination of AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Research Products

AHEC

area health education center

AHRQ

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

AMA

American Medical Association

APHA

American Public Health Association

ATSM

automated telephone self-management

BMI

body mass index

CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CHIP

Children’s Health Insurance Program

CME

continuing medical education

CMS

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

CTSI

Clinical and Translational Science Institute

ESL

English as a second language

FASHP

Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions

GIS

geographic information system

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2011. Improving Health Literacy Within a State: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13185.
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HCI

Health Care Institute

HHS

Department of Health and Human Services

HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HLI

Health Literacy Iowa

HLM

Health Literacy Missouri

HRSA

Health Resources and Services Administration

IHA

Institute for Healthcare Advancement

IOM

Institute of Medicine

LA

Los Angeles

LAC

Literacy Assistance Center

LCME

Liaison Committee on Medical Education

NAAL

National Assessment of Adult Literacy

NALS

National Adult Literacy Survey

NC

North Carolina

NCIOM

North Carolina Institute of Medicine

NCSALL

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

NIFL

National Institute For Literacy

NIH

National Institutes of Health

PHR

personal health records

PI

principal investigator

RA

rheumatoid arthritis

RDA

recommended daily allowance

SOPHE

Society for Public Health Educators

SRFCP

student-run free clinic program

UC

University of California

UCLA

University of California, Los Angeles

UCSD

University of California, San Diego

UCSF

University of California, San Francisco

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2011. Improving Health Literacy Within a State: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13185.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2011. Improving Health Literacy Within a State: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13185.
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Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions. According to Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion (IOM, 2004), nearly half of all American adults--90 million people--have inadequate health literacy to navigate the healthcare system.

To address issues raised in that report, the Institute of Medicine convened the Roundtable on Health Literacy, which brings together leaders from the federal government, foundations, health plans, associations, and private companies to discuss challenges facing health literacy practice and research and to identify approaches to promote health literacy in both the public and private sectors. On November 30, 2010, the roundtable cosponsored a workshop with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles.

Improving Health Literacy Within a State serves as a summary of what occurred at the workshop. The workshop focused on understanding what works to improve health literacy across a state, including how various stakeholders have a role in improving health literacy. The focus of the workshop was on presentations and discussions that address (1) the clinical impacts of health literacy improvement approaches; (2) economic outcomes of health literacy implementation; and (3) how various stakeholders can affect health literacy.

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