chp 12 Flashcards
Box 12-1 healthy people 2020 Goals basically everything you can think of to improve health illiterates
Over reaching goals- Achieve health quality
achieve health equity, create socail and physical enviroments that promote good health for all promote quality of life healthy development and healthy behaviors across all stages of life and the list goes on.
Listen and be the best physical therapist you can possibly be but, this is kinda hard when the fucker doesn’t speak English and you are hungry.
some signs of Communication difficulties or Reading difficulties or Self care difficulties give examples like with reading they might read really slow is usually a give away pg. 205 table 12-3
Reading behaviors - lifts text close to face when reading points to and follows text with finger while reading eyes wander over page without finding central focus slow reading
Self care- unable to name medications, misses appointments, waits until problem becomes serve before seeing a doctor
Communication issues- shows signs of nervousness or frustration (Edeer) is very quiet and passive, nods head in response to information but, doesn’t ask any questions in follow-up or no verbal rational response (Edeer) May not anwser questions correctly and demonstrates differences between what is heard and read (Edeer)
What are prose tasks, document tasks, and quantitative tasks
Prose- gathering info out of a newspaper or magazine, Document - knowledge of understanding important health or legal docs
Quantitative tasks- understanding simple mathematical procedures
What is the new “vital” sign to determine if someone is health literate or not
The patient has to read an ice cream label and determine information from it.
What is the SMOG test used for?
to test an individuals readability
Suitability of Assessment of Materials Table 12-4 pg. 212 what does survey look for
Writing abilities of a Patient
Content, Literacy, Graphics, Layout and topography, Learning and stimulation, Cultural appropriateness
