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April 8, 2004
Running Time: 1:00:19
Nearly half of all American adults – 90 million people – have difficulty understanding and using health information, and there is a higher rate of hospitalization and use of emergency services among patients with limited health literacy, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Limited health literacy may lead to billions of dollars in avoidable health care costs.
Speakers:
David A. Kindig, M.D., Ph.D.,
Professor Emeritus of Population Health Sciences, and
Co-Director, Wisconsin Public Health and Health Policy Institute,
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
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Chair, Committee on Health Literacy.
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