Health Insurance and Insights from Health Literacy Helping Consumers Understand: Proceedings of a Workshop (2017) / Chapter Skim
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In his introductory remarks to the workshop, Bernard Rosof, chief executive officer of the Quality in Healthcare Advisory Group and professor of medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, noted that the Roundtable on Health Literacy has previously engaged in a number of activities related to health care reform. A 2010 workshop explored the challenges and opportunities for health literacy within the context of health care reform (IOM, 2011)
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. Revisiting the topic of health literacy in the context of health care reform, the Roundtable on Health Literacy formed an ad hoc committee1 charged with planning and conducting a 1-day public workshop to examine health insurance through the lens of health literacy, focusing on literacy related barriers to information and coverage as well as on possible solutions (see Box 1-1)
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Chapter 4 discusses some of the ways in which health literacy and health insurance literacy contribute to solving the challenges raised during the preceding moderated discussion. Chapter 5 includes highlights on a second moderated discussion that covered a number of topics, including how to support navigators, comparing plan information, human-centered design practices in billing and literacy, attracting the "young invincibles," and the role of libraries in health insurance literacy.
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