Impact of patient-centered prescription medication labels on adherence in community pharmacy.

Background: Prescription medication labels are often constructed in a manner which hinders safe and appropriate use of medicines. The United States Pharmacopeia released voluntary standards to revise medication labels in an effort to support patients' understanding and improve medication use.

Objective: To examine the impact of label changes on medication adherence before and after pharmacy implementation of the United States Pharmacopeia patient-centered prescription medication label standards.

Health Literacy Initiatives and Lessons Learned with NGOs: Wisconsin Health Literacy.

This report discusses necessary steps to help ensure successful community-based health literacy interventions using adult learning principles. Two workshop topics are covered: one on the flu and the other on the safe and effective use of opioids. Successful implementation includes conducting a needs assessment, developing project content, identifying target audiences, building strong community partners, implementing the workshops, and evaluating outcomes.

How Health Literacy Develops the 'Four Aims' of Better Health Care.

The chapter's audience and purpose are twofold. First, the chapter introduces the 'Quadruple Aim' to policy makers and provides a general overview of health literacy strategies and tools to meet the Quadruple Aim to enhance care delivery while reducing costs. Second, the chapter identifies gaps in health literacy related research and encourages a research agenda to further the evidence base of health literacy to reduce cost, enhance quality, increase access, improve satisfaction, and achieve health equity.

Prioritized Health Literacy and Clear Communication Practices For Health Care Professionals.

Background: Health care professionals need more and better training about health literacy and clear communication to provide optimal care to populations with low health literacy. A large number of health literacy and clear communication practices have been identified in the literature, but health professions educators, administrators, and policymakers have lacked guidance regarding which practices should be prioritized among members of the health care workforce.

Objective: This study sought to prioritize recommended health literacy and clear communication practices for health care professionals.

Health literacy practices and educational competencies for health professionals: a consensus study.

Health care professionals often lack adequate knowledge about health literacy and the skills needed to address low health literacy among patients and their caregivers. Many promising practices for mitigating the effects of low health literacy are not used consistently. Improving health literacy training for health care professionals has received increasing emphasis in recent years.