Module 3

person's capacity to find, discuss, & comprehend health info & be able to use it to make informed decisions about their own health; critical for health promotion & self-monitoring; key to managing chronic diseases; knowledge, transmission, understanding, & informed action

minority, living in poverty, being older than 65; poor outcomes can start in childhood; increased severeity of condition, less likely to be immunized, increased mortality, suicide, untreated conditions; higher ER use, higher hospitalization & re-hospitalization rates

Patient Education Meterials Assessment Tool (PEMAT), Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM-SF), Ask me 3, and Newst Vital sign or ice cream label assessment; routinely assess patient literacy, teach-back method, assess provider communication skills; provide reading level material, give pictures & pictograms

systematic differences in the health status of different populations groups; have significant social & economic costs; can be from distribution of health resources between different population groups from social conditions where people are born, grow, live, work, and age.

differences in health outcomes and their determinates between segments of the population as defined by social, demographic, environmental, and geographic attributes.

published by CDC; report that examines health disparities in the US associated with race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, disability, and geography

The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels

(healthpeople.gov) Built environment = neighborhoods, access to food, environmental conditions, living conditions, crime/violence
Health = access to health care/primary care & health literacy
social = discrimination, incarceration, community
Education = language, literacy, early childhood education, graduation rates
Economic = poverty, employment, stability, housing/food