Community-Based
Health Literacy
Interventions
PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP
Joe Alper, Rapporteur
Roundtable on Health Literacy
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
Health and Medicine Division
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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH LITERACY INTERVENTIONS1
STEVEN TEUTSCH (Chair), Adjunct Professor, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
LAURIE FRANCIS, Senior Director of Clinic Operations and Quality, Oregon Primary Care Association
ROMANA HASNAIN-WYNIA, Chief Research Officer, Denver Health
ANDREW PLEASANT, Senior Advisor on Health Literacy Interventions, Research, and Evaluation, Health Literacy Media
EARNESTINE WILLIS, Kellner Professor in Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin
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ROUNDTABLE ON HEALTH LITERACY1
BERNARD ROSOF (Chair), Professor of Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, and CEO, QHC Advisory Group, LLC
WILMA ALVARADO-LITTLE, Principal and Founder, Alvarado-Little Consulting, LLC
SUZANNE BAKKEN, Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
CINDY BRACH, Senior Health Policy Researcher, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
GEMIRALD DAUS, Public Health Analyst, Office of Health Equity, Health Resources and Services Administration
TERRY C. DAVIS, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
CHRISTOPHER DEZII, Director, Healthcare Quality and Performance Measures, Bristol-Myers Squibb
JENNIFER DILLAHA, Medical Director for Immunizations, Medical Advisor, Health Literacy and Communication, Arkansas Department of Health
JAMES DUHIG, Head, Risk Communication and Behavioral Systems, Office of Patient Safety, AbbVie Inc.
WILLIAM ELWOOD, OppNet/Health Scientist Administrator, National Institutes of Health
ALICIA FERNANDEZ, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
LAURIE FRANCIS, Senior Director of Clinic Operations and Quality, Oregon Primary Care Association
LORI HALL, Director, Health Literacy, U.S. Medical Strategy and Operations, Lilly USA, LLC
LINDA HARRIS, Director, Division of Health Communication and eHealth Team, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
JOAN KELLY, Chief Patient Experience Officer, New York University Langone Health System
LAURIE MYERS, Global Health Literacy Director, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
CATINA O’LEARY, President and Chief Executive Officer, Health Literacy Media
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MARYLYNN OSTROWSKI, Executive Director, Aetna Foundation
MICHAEL K. PAASCHE-ORLOW, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
TERRI ANN PARNELL, Principal and Founder, Health Literacy Partners
KIM PARSON, Strategic Consultant, Proactive Care Strategies, Humana
KAVITA PATEL, Managing Director for Clinical Transformation and Delivery, The Brookings Institution
ANDREW PLEASANT, Senior Advisor on Health Literacy Interventions, Research, and Evaluation, Health Literacy Media
LINDSEY A. ROBINSON, Thirteenth District Trustee, American Dental Association
STACEY ROSEN, Associate Professor of Cardiology, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, and Vice President, Women’s Health, The Katz Institute for Women’s Health
RIMA RUDD, Senior Lecturer on Health Literacy, Education, and Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
STEVEN RUSH, Director, Health Literacy Innovations, UnitedHealth Group
MICHAEL VILLAIRE, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Healthcare Advancement
EARNESTINE WILLIS, Kellner Professor in Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin
AMANDA WILSON, Head, National Network Coordinating Office, National Library of Medicine
MICHAEL S. WOLF, Professor, Medicine and Learning Sciences, Associate Division Chief, Research Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
WINSTON F. WONG, Medical Director, Disparities Improvement and Quality Initiatives, Kaiser Permanente
Consultant
RUTH PARKER, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Public Health, Emory University School of Medicine
Health and Medicine Division Staff
LYLA HERNANDEZ, Senior Program Officer
MELISSA FRENCH, Program Officer
ALEXIS WOJTOWICZ, Senior Program Assistant
ROSE MARIE MARTINEZ, Senior Board Director, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
Reviewers
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We thank the following individuals for their review of this proceedings:
SHARON E. BARRETT, Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
CHIMENE CASTOR, Howard University
AMANDA WILSON, National Library of Medicine
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Acknowledgments
The sponsors of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Literacy made it possible to plan and conduct the workshop on community-based health literacy interventions, which this publication summarizes. Federal sponsors included the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Health Resources and Services Administration; National Institutes of Health; National Library of Medicine; and Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Non-federal sponsorship was provided by AbbVie Inc.; Aetna Foundation; American Dental Association; Bristol-Myers Squibb; East Bay Community Foundation (Kaiser Permanente); Eli Lilly and Company; Health Literacy Media; Health Literacy Partners; Humana; Institute for Healthcare Advancement; Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.; New York University Langone Health System; Northwell Health; and UnitedHealth Group.
The roundtable would like to thank each of the moderators, panelists, reactors, and speakers for their time and effort. Moderators, panelists, reactors, and speakers were, in alphabetical order, Cynthia Baur, Cindy Brach, Maureen Daniels, William Elwood, Michele Erikson, Oscar Espinosa, Leslie Gelders, Ariella Herman, S. Marisa New, Catina O’Leary, Andrew Pleasant, Anil Thota, Michael Villaire, Sherrie Flynt Wallington, Earnestine Willis, and Caroline Young.
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Contents
Organization of the Proceedings of a Workshop
2 PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION ON THE COMMISSIONED PAPER
3 EXAMPLES OF COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH LITERACY PROGRAMS
Health Literacy in Public Libraries
Cover Missouri’s Community Health Literacy Program
Health Literacy in Head Start Programs
4 EVALUATING COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH LITERACY INTERVENTIONS
Potential Issues and Challenges in Evaluating Community-Based Health Literacy Interventions
Boxes, Figures, and Tables
BOXES
2-1 Categories Used to Organize the Results of the Literature Review
2-2 Reported Outcomes in the 74 Reviewed Papers
3-1 Suggestions from Speakers for Implementing Community-Based Health Literacy Interventions
4-1 Suggestions from Speakers for Evaluating Community-Based Health Literacy Interventions
4-2 Possible Goals for Evaluation
FIGURES
3-1 Health Literacy Media’s (HLM’s) pilot program planning process
3-2 The four communities chosen for the pilot projects
3-3 Health Care Institute’s strategic implementation plan phases
3-4 Health Care Institute’s five levels of evaluation
3-5 The Eat Healthy, Stay Active strategic implementation model
3-6 Sample outcomes for adults who participated in Eat Healthy, Stay Active pilot training
3-7 Sample outcomes for children who participated in Eat Healthy, Stay Active pilot training
4-1 Logic model for the Life Enhancement Program
4-2 Health literacy improvements in the Life Enhancement Program
4-3 Logic model for the Theater for Health intervention in Peru
4-4 Health literacy improvements from the Theater for Health intervention in Peru
C-1 Flowchart for selection of papers for full-text review
TABLES
2-1 Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria for the Literature Review
3-1 Demographics of the Four Pilot Communities
4-1 Evaluation of the Life Enhancement Program Using the Calgary Charter Health Literacy Scale
4-2 Dose–Response Data for Three Health Literacy Interventions
C-1 Keywords for Searching the Literature
C-2 Search Strategies in Commercial Library Databases
C-3 Detailed Search Strategy in PubMed (performed April 12, 2017)
C-4 Criteria for the Inclusion and Exclusion of Papers in the Review
C-5 Codes and Directions for Community-Based Health Literacy Intervention Review
C-6 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Best Practices Framework
C-7 Drop-Down Lists for the Cells
C-9 Frequency of Labels to Identify Intervention Communities
Acronyms and Abbreviations
ACA | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act |
CBPR | community-based participatory research |
CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
CHW | community health worker |
FQHC | federally qualified health center |
HCI | Health Care Institute |
MHFA | mental health first aid |
RCT | randomized controlled trial |
RE-AIM | Research, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance |
REALM | Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine |
S-TOFHLA | Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults |
UCLA | University of California, Los Angeles |
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