Author: Mary Ann Abrams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781581102659
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nearly half of all US adults have difficulty understanding and using health information. Patients with limited health literacy have less knowledge of disease management and health-promoting behaviors, report poorer health status, and are less likely to use preventive services. Many of the parents of the children you care for likely have limited health literacy and all of them can benefit from a plain language approach to communication. Plain Language Pediatrics combines health literacy and plain language principles to present information in a way that makes it as easy as possible for everyone to understand, and applies these principles to a variety of ambulatory acute, chronic, and preventive conditions. Common pediatric topics such as asthma, ADHD, ear infections, and medical dosing are addressed in detail. This robust resource is divided into 2 parts. Part I explores limited health literacy, including the scope of the problem, how it affects children in particular, and how health care providers can address and overcome health literacy issues with patients and their caregivers. At the heart of Part II in Plain Language Pediatrics is a new series of 25 reproducible* patient education handouts in both English and Spanish that feature Need-to-know information up front Fewer health care terms and jargon Practical pronunciation guides Low reading levels User-friendly layouts Simple, purposeful illustrations Specific topics include: ADHD--What Is ADHD? ADHD--What to Do for ADHD Asthma Asthma Triggers Bedwetting Bronchiolitis--RSV, Bronchiolitis, and Your Baby Calcium ...
Plain Language Pediatrics
Author: Mary Ann Abrams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781581102659
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nearly half of all US adults have difficulty understanding and using health information. Patients with limited health literacy have less knowledge of disease management and health-promoting behaviors, report poorer health status, and are less likely to use preventive services. Many of the parents of the children you care for likely have limited health literacy and all of them can benefit from a plain language approach to communication. Plain Language Pediatrics combines health literacy and plain language principles to present information in a way that makes it as easy as possible for everyone to understand, and applies these principles to a variety of ambulatory acute, chronic, and preventive conditions. Common pediatric topics such as asthma, ADHD, ear infections, and medical dosing are addressed in detail. This robust resource is divided into 2 parts. Part I explores limited health literacy, including the scope of the problem, how it affects children in particular, and how health care providers can address and overcome health literacy issues with patients and their caregivers. At the heart of Part II in Plain Language Pediatrics is a new series of 25 reproducible* patient education handouts in both English and Spanish that feature Need-to-know information up front Fewer health care terms and jargon Practical pronunciation guides Low reading levels User-friendly layouts Simple, purposeful illustrations Specific topics include: ADHD--What Is ADHD? ADHD--What to Do for ADHD Asthma Asthma Triggers Bedwetting Bronchiolitis--RSV, Bronchiolitis, and Your Baby Calcium ...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781581102659
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nearly half of all US adults have difficulty understanding and using health information. Patients with limited health literacy have less knowledge of disease management and health-promoting behaviors, report poorer health status, and are less likely to use preventive services. Many of the parents of the children you care for likely have limited health literacy and all of them can benefit from a plain language approach to communication. Plain Language Pediatrics combines health literacy and plain language principles to present information in a way that makes it as easy as possible for everyone to understand, and applies these principles to a variety of ambulatory acute, chronic, and preventive conditions. Common pediatric topics such as asthma, ADHD, ear infections, and medical dosing are addressed in detail. This robust resource is divided into 2 parts. Part I explores limited health literacy, including the scope of the problem, how it affects children in particular, and how health care providers can address and overcome health literacy issues with patients and their caregivers. At the heart of Part II in Plain Language Pediatrics is a new series of 25 reproducible* patient education handouts in both English and Spanish that feature Need-to-know information up front Fewer health care terms and jargon Practical pronunciation guides Low reading levels User-friendly layouts Simple, purposeful illustrations Specific topics include: ADHD--What Is ADHD? ADHD--What to Do for ADHD Asthma Asthma Triggers Bedwetting Bronchiolitis--RSV, Bronchiolitis, and Your Baby Calcium ...
Health Literacy From A to Z
Author: M. Ed Osborne
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 1449677347
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Clear communication of your health message can make all the difference in effective patient care. Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message, Second Edition is an easy to use handbook designed for the busy health professional. Filled with ideas and strategies that can be used in everyday practice, Health Literacy from A to Z is a first-of-its-kind resource. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 1449677347
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Clear communication of your health message can make all the difference in effective patient care. Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message, Second Edition is an easy to use handbook designed for the busy health professional. Filled with ideas and strategies that can be used in everyday practice, Health Literacy from A to Z is a first-of-its-kind resource. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.
Health Literacy From A to Z
Author: Helen Osborne
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 1449600530
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
With patient experience at the forefront of health care, effective communication of health messages is critical to quality care. This book offers proven strategies to help providers clearly explain health information to a variety of audiences, from patients and caregivers, to students and the public.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 1449600530
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
With patient experience at the forefront of health care, effective communication of health messages is critical to quality care. This book offers proven strategies to help providers clearly explain health information to a variety of audiences, from patients and caregivers, to students and the public.
Nurturing Children
Author: A. R. Colón
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN: 9780313310805
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This history of the evolution of pediatrics from the beginning of recorded civilization examines chronologically the medical and societal antecedents of current child care. Although the term pediatrics is modern, the book explores the antecedents that facilitated the evolution of pediatric care as a separate discipline and a unique science. These antecedents include ancient manuscripts and the writings of acknowledged medical classicists, and the works of physicians in the East who recorded the medicine of the ancients, their own original theories, clinical observations, and experience, and exported their wisdom to the West. The book's point of view demonstrates that healers from the beginning of recorded time understood the unique physiology of the infant and the distinct nutritional and medical needs of the growing child. Despite this recognition, centuries of poorly applied medical principles prevailed in the general population as adjuncts to societal conditions that included war, pestilence, ignorance of the pathophysiology of disease, and the exploitation of labor. In this milieu, suffering was universal. Pediatrics came into its own when richer, more stable societies had the time, energy, and resources to provide for the most vulnerable of their subjects. Motives included economic self-interest as well as altruistic demand for social reform.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN: 9780313310805
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This history of the evolution of pediatrics from the beginning of recorded civilization examines chronologically the medical and societal antecedents of current child care. Although the term pediatrics is modern, the book explores the antecedents that facilitated the evolution of pediatric care as a separate discipline and a unique science. These antecedents include ancient manuscripts and the writings of acknowledged medical classicists, and the works of physicians in the East who recorded the medicine of the ancients, their own original theories, clinical observations, and experience, and exported their wisdom to the West. The book's point of view demonstrates that healers from the beginning of recorded time understood the unique physiology of the infant and the distinct nutritional and medical needs of the growing child. Despite this recognition, centuries of poorly applied medical principles prevailed in the general population as adjuncts to societal conditions that included war, pestilence, ignorance of the pathophysiology of disease, and the exploitation of labor. In this milieu, suffering was universal. Pediatrics came into its own when richer, more stable societies had the time, energy, and resources to provide for the most vulnerable of their subjects. Motives included economic self-interest as well as altruistic demand for social reform.
Child Health Equity, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America, E-Book
Author: Robert S. Kahn
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0323939082
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In this issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Robert S. Kahn, Monica Mitchell, and Tina L. Cheng bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Achieving Child Health Equity. Health equity requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care. In this issue, top experts provide up-to-date information to healthcare practitioners with the goal of implementing programs and policies to identify and address health care inequality for children. - Contains 15 practice-oriented topics including clarity on disparity of healthcare in pediatrics: who, what, when, where and how; screening and addressing social determinants of health in pediatric practice; addressing structural racism in pediatric practice; addressing health literacy in pediatric practice; LGBTQ+ and child health equity; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews of achieving child health equity, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0323939082
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In this issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Robert S. Kahn, Monica Mitchell, and Tina L. Cheng bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Achieving Child Health Equity. Health equity requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care. In this issue, top experts provide up-to-date information to healthcare practitioners with the goal of implementing programs and policies to identify and address health care inequality for children. - Contains 15 practice-oriented topics including clarity on disparity of healthcare in pediatrics: who, what, when, where and how; screening and addressing social determinants of health in pediatric practice; addressing structural racism in pediatric practice; addressing health literacy in pediatric practice; LGBTQ+ and child health equity; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews of achieving child health equity, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Hospital Medicine and Clinical Education, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America
Author: Nancy Spector
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0323682804
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Drs. Robert Wachter and Lee Goldman coined the term hospitalist in their New England Journal of Medicine article in 1996. Hospital Medicine is now the fastest growing medical specialty in the United States, due in part to the evolution of inpatient care. In this issue, the Guest Editor, Dr. Nancy Spector, and Consulting Editor Dr. Bonita Stanton, have assembled expert authors to examine the changing nature of inpatient care, including the major movements and trends that have influenced hospital-based practice, patient centered care, and education in this clinical learning environment. Articles are focused on the following: Quality of Care and Quality Improvement; Evidence-based Medicine; Patient Outcomes and Metrics; Inter-professional Teams; Handoffs; Patient Centeredness; Communication with Patients; Health Literacy; Bedside Rounds; Education in the Inpatient; Clinical Learning Environment and Workplace-based Assessment; Simulation in Medical Education; Feedback; Bedside Teaching and Learning; and Hospital Medicine: State of the Specialty, Looking Forward. The intended audience for this issue are frontline providers that provide care in community hospitals and faculty in academic medical centers. Pediatricians will come away with the information they need to improve patient outcomes with evidentiary support.
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0323682804
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Drs. Robert Wachter and Lee Goldman coined the term hospitalist in their New England Journal of Medicine article in 1996. Hospital Medicine is now the fastest growing medical specialty in the United States, due in part to the evolution of inpatient care. In this issue, the Guest Editor, Dr. Nancy Spector, and Consulting Editor Dr. Bonita Stanton, have assembled expert authors to examine the changing nature of inpatient care, including the major movements and trends that have influenced hospital-based practice, patient centered care, and education in this clinical learning environment. Articles are focused on the following: Quality of Care and Quality Improvement; Evidence-based Medicine; Patient Outcomes and Metrics; Inter-professional Teams; Handoffs; Patient Centeredness; Communication with Patients; Health Literacy; Bedside Rounds; Education in the Inpatient; Clinical Learning Environment and Workplace-based Assessment; Simulation in Medical Education; Feedback; Bedside Teaching and Learning; and Hospital Medicine: State of the Specialty, Looking Forward. The intended audience for this issue are frontline providers that provide care in community hospitals and faculty in academic medical centers. Pediatricians will come away with the information they need to improve patient outcomes with evidentiary support.
Health Literacy and Child Health Outcomes
Author: Rosina Avila Connelly
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319507990
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
This compact resource presents current data on health literacy as it affects child health outcomes, with a sharp focus on improving communication between healthcare providers and pediatric patients and their families. A frequently overlooked social determinant of health in children, health literacy is shown as a critical skill for patients and families and a key aspect of patient engagement. The authors’ evidence-based survey pinpoints common problems in healthcare providers’ verbal and written communication with pediatric patients, their parents, and/or caregivers. Readers will learn about practical health literacy strategies for addressing and preventing miscommunication at the individual and systems levels. These improvements are linked to immediate results (e.g., greater compliance, fewer medication errors) as well as improved long-term child health outcomes, including reduced health disparities and enhanced quality of life into adulthood. This transformative guide: Defines optimum health communication as necessary for working with all patients Identifies common barriers to clear health communication Traces the relationship between health literacy and child health outcomes, from the prenatal period and into young adulthood Offers guidelines for creating effective patient education materials and a safe, health literacy oriented patient-centered environment Integrates health literacy into health systems’ quality improvement plans Health Literacy and Child Health Outcomes informs students in MPH programs as well as public health scientists and scholars, and can also serve as an introductory text for students in public health ethics or a general applied ethics course. Public health professionals in diverse contexts such as local health departments and nonprofit organizations will appreciate its robust approach to ethical practice, professional development, and systems improvement. This will be a helpful guide for introducing health communication topics in medical education and allied health. Lastly, clinicians taking care of pediatric patients will find concise information and practical advice to apply in the clinical setting.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319507990
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
This compact resource presents current data on health literacy as it affects child health outcomes, with a sharp focus on improving communication between healthcare providers and pediatric patients and their families. A frequently overlooked social determinant of health in children, health literacy is shown as a critical skill for patients and families and a key aspect of patient engagement. The authors’ evidence-based survey pinpoints common problems in healthcare providers’ verbal and written communication with pediatric patients, their parents, and/or caregivers. Readers will learn about practical health literacy strategies for addressing and preventing miscommunication at the individual and systems levels. These improvements are linked to immediate results (e.g., greater compliance, fewer medication errors) as well as improved long-term child health outcomes, including reduced health disparities and enhanced quality of life into adulthood. This transformative guide: Defines optimum health communication as necessary for working with all patients Identifies common barriers to clear health communication Traces the relationship between health literacy and child health outcomes, from the prenatal period and into young adulthood Offers guidelines for creating effective patient education materials and a safe, health literacy oriented patient-centered environment Integrates health literacy into health systems’ quality improvement plans Health Literacy and Child Health Outcomes informs students in MPH programs as well as public health scientists and scholars, and can also serve as an introductory text for students in public health ethics or a general applied ethics course. Public health professionals in diverse contexts such as local health departments and nonprofit organizations will appreciate its robust approach to ethical practice, professional development, and systems improvement. This will be a helpful guide for introducing health communication topics in medical education and allied health. Lastly, clinicians taking care of pediatric patients will find concise information and practical advice to apply in the clinical setting.
Pediatrics
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Health Literacy in Nursing
Author: Terri Ann Parnell
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826161723
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Print+CourseSmart
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826161723
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Print+CourseSmart
Toward Health Equity and Patient-Centeredness
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309177537
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
To receive the greatest value for health care, it is important to focus on issues of quality and disparity, and the ability of individuals to make appropriate decisions based on basic health knowledge and services. The Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation, the Roundtable on Health Disparities, and the Roundtable on Health Literacy jointly convened the workshop "Toward Health Equity and Patient-Centeredness: Integrating Health Literacy, Disparities Reduction, and Quality Improvement" to address these concerns. During this workshop, speakers and participants explored how equity in care delivered and a focus on patients could be improved.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309177537
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
To receive the greatest value for health care, it is important to focus on issues of quality and disparity, and the ability of individuals to make appropriate decisions based on basic health knowledge and services. The Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation, the Roundtable on Health Disparities, and the Roundtable on Health Literacy jointly convened the workshop "Toward Health Equity and Patient-Centeredness: Integrating Health Literacy, Disparities Reduction, and Quality Improvement" to address these concerns. During this workshop, speakers and participants explored how equity in care delivered and a focus on patients could be improved.