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Health Literacy Flashcards

1
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How bad is bad health literacy

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Affects million

200 billion dollars annually

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Below basic health literacy

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Have only the most elementary literacy skills (can talk and point out things)

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Basic health literacy

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Have the skill necesary to perform simple, everyday activities and can read commonplace texts (read and recite info)

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4
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Intermediate health literacy

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can perform moderately challenging activies(summarize, cause and effect, simple inferences)

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Proficient health literacy

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Complex activies (integration,synthesizing, analyzing multiple peices of info)

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6
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what percent of adults have proficient health literacy

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12%

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7
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define health literacy

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the ability to obtain, process and understand basic health info and services to make good health care decisions

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to obtain

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To know where and when to week health info and service

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to process

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To determine relevance, remember

being able to read, listen, and see/take in info

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To understand

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To comprehend or make sense of health infro, messages, and services

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make health descisions

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Use info to take action, apply info and use service

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Skills needed for decision making

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Reading
writing
Speaking
Listening
Numeracy (basic math)
interpret visuals
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13
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hgih school dropout rate

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30%

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14
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define literacy

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Read, write, speak english
compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency to function on the job and socity
to achieve ones goals, develop knowledge and potential

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15
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Can a person be literal with limited health literacy

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Yes

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16
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what percent of high school grads have limited health literacy

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45%

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17
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what factors affect health literacy

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Individual factors (literacy skills, health knowledge, cultural beliefs, experience)
Communication skills of health professionals
Level of complexity and novelty of health info
Cultural and linguistic suitability of health info and service
Infrastructure that facilitates and supports healthy behaviors

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18
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where is low health literacy most prevalent

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Non-high school graduates
Older adults
Low income families
Ethnic minorities
Immigrants
19
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what percent of immigrants can not understand appointment scheduling

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26%

20
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what percent of immigrants can not understand instrucutions to take meds on an empty stomach

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42%

21
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what percenet of immigrants can not understand if they were eligible for free care

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49%

22
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what happens to people with limited health literacy

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Poor health status
Hospitalized more often
Hospitalized for longer
Use ER more often
contribute to financial inefficiencies on the system
cost 69 billion dollars of avoidable expenditures

23
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Low health literacy is associeted with what societal factors

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Increase in misuse of alcohol in boys
Violent childhood behavior
Increased risk of mortality

24
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Clues that one might be low in health literacy

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Do not complete medical forms
Forget glasses
cary unrelated papers together
unable to identify their medication directions
Axious or can't focus during interview
25
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REd flags for low literacy

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Frequently missed appointments
Incomplete registration forms
Non-compliance with medication
Unable to name medications, explain purpose or dosing
Identifies pills by looking at them, not reading label
Unable to give coherent, sequential history
Ask fewer questions
Lack of follow-through on tests or referrals

26
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Concern with low health literacy have problems with

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Locating providers and service
filling out complex health forms
Sharing med history
Connecting risky ehavor and helth
Understanding directions on meds
27
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how much more likely is one with low literacy to expereince a given poor outcome

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1.5-3 times

28
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what to do with patients

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Tell me whats wrong
What I need to do and why
Emphasize benifits

29
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How to break down meds

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What is it for
How to take
Why (benefit
What to expect

30
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how to aid in patient understanding

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Focus on need to know and do
TEach back meth
Demonstrate and draw pics
use clear education material

31
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what age should reading material be for patients

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5th grade

32
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how much do patients tend to recall

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less than 50%

33
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How should written matterial be given to a patient

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Use words and explaination while giving the writen matterial

34
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how should clinicians explain

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plain language
limit info (3-5 key points)
specific and concrete not general
demonstrate, draw, models
Repeat/summarize
Teach-back
positive,hopeful, empower
35
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what is oral health literacy

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how well individuals can obtain, process and understand basic oral and craniofacial health info and service to make decisions

36
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what can affect a child’s dental status

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The caregivers literacy

37
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how do african americans feel at the dental office

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Like they have less time spend with them than caucasians

2x as likely to report that they are treated unfairly

38
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who claims to be treated better, private insurance or medicaid

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Private insurance

39
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how to look when using a translater

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Look at the patient not the translator (also use your own translator that you trust)

40
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what percentage of AAPD patient education material was above the recommended 6th grade reading level

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88-92%

41
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what does an adult need to learn

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Needs to be respected
must have the will to learn
learn by active performance
value receiving feedback
adress with empathy and understanding
42
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what is ASK me 3

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patient education program to promote comm between providers and patients consisiting of 3 q

43
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what are the q for ask me 3

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what is my main problem
what do i need to do
why is this important

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