The Chinatown Patient Navigation Program: Adaptation and Implementation of Breast and Cervical Cancer Patient Navigation in Chicago's Chinatown.

Background: As health care reform continues within the United States, navigators may play increasingly diverse and vital roles across the health care continuum. The growing interest in patient navigation programs for underserved populations calls for detailed descriptions of intervention components to facilitate implementation and dissemination efforts.

Methods: In Chicago's Chinatown, Chinese immigrant women face language, cultural, and access barriers in obtaining breast and cervical cancer screening and follow-up.

Effects of health literacy and cognitive abilities on COPD self-management behaviors: A prospective cohort study.

Introduction: Low rates of adherence to self-management behaviors are common among patients with COPD. Health literacy and cognitive abilities may influence engagement in self-management behaviors. We sought to assess the association between health literacy and cognitive abilities with self-management behaviors in patients with COPD.

Mild Visual Impairment and Its Impact on Self-Care Among Older Adults.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of mild visual impairment (MVI) among urban older adults in primary care settings, and ascertain whether MVI was a risk factor for inadequate performance on self-care health tasks.

Method: We used data from a cohort of 900 older adults recruited from primary care clinics. Self-management skills were assessed using the Comprehensive Health Activities Scale, and vision with corrective lenses was assessed with the Snellen.

Health literacy, cognitive function, proper use, and adherence to inhaled asthma controller medications among older adults with asthma.

Background: We sought to investigate the degree to which cognitive skills explain associations between health literacy and asthma-related medication use among older adults with asthma.

Methods: Patients aged ≥ 60 years receiving care at eight outpatient clinics (primary care, geriatrics, pulmonology, allergy, and immunology) in New York, New York, and Chicago, Illinois, were recruited to participate in structured, in-person interviews as part of the Asthma Beliefs and Literacy in the Elderly (ABLE) study (n = 425). Behaviors related to medication use were investigated, including adherence to prescribed regimens, metered-dose inhaler (MDI) technique, and dry powder inhaler (DPI) technique.