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Introduction
The Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy brings
together leaders from the federal government, foundations, health plans,
associations, and private companies to discuss challenges related to health
literacy practice and research and to identify approaches to promoting
health literacy in both the public and private sectors. The Roundtable
also serves to educate the public, the press, and policy makers regarding
issues related to health literacy. The Roundtable sponsors workshops for
members and the public to discuss approaches to resolve key challenges.
Health literacy, “the degree to which individuals have the capacity
to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services
needed to make appropriate health decisions” (Ratzan and Parker, 2000)
has been shown to affect health outcomes (Berkman et al., 2004). The use
of preventive services improves health and prevents costly health care
expenditures (IOM, 2009). Several studies have found that health literacy
makes a difference in the extent to which populations use preventive
services. For example, Lillie and colleagues (2007) assessed health literacy
levels and their relationship to the knowledge of and attitudes toward
the use of information about the risks of breast cancer recurrence. They
found that women with lower health literacy recalled less of the informa -
tion provided.
On September 15, 2009, the Roundtable held a workshop to explore
approaches to integrate health literacy into primary and secondary pre-
vention. The role of the workshop planning committee was limited to
developing the meeting agenda. This summary was prepared by the
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rapporteurs as a factual account of the discussion that took place at the
workshop. All views presented in the report are those of the individ -
ual workshop participants and should not be construed as reflecting any
group consensus.
The workshop featured presentations and discussions on selected
topics within the broader area of the role of health literacy in preven -
tion as well as a commissioned paper on integrating health literacy into
primary and secondary prevention strategies. The workshop was moder-
ated by George Isham. The following pages summarize the workshop
presentations and discussions. Chapter 2 describes work by the Office
of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion on health literacy and pre -
vention. Chapter 3 contains a presentation on the commissioned paper
on integrating health literacy into primary and secondary prevention
strategies along with responses by panel members and a general dis-
cussion. Chapter 4 presents reactions to and discussion about the com-
missioned paper. Chapter 5 describes the inclusion of health literacy into
public health prevention programs at the national, state and local levels.
Chapter 6 reviews how insurance companies factor health literacy into
their prevention programs. Chapter 7 discusses industry contributions to
providing health literate primary and secondary prevention. Chapter 8
focuses on the potential and challenges of highlighting health literacy and
a general discussion that concluded the workshop.
