Better Health Literacy Improves Patients’ Outcomes

Better Health Literacy Improves Patients' Outcomes As a new AHRQ Views blog explains, when patients communicate effectively with their healthcare team, care and outcomes improve. During this Health Literacy Month – as always – AHRQ encourages healthcare organizations to adopt health literacy strategies to help patients better understand health information.  Check out some of AHRQ's many free resources to help organizations become more health-literate:  AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit – short, action-oriented tools help ensure systems are in place to promote better understanding by all patients.  SHARE Approach Workshop Curriculum – helps train healthcare professionals on engaging patients in their healthcare decision-making.  Toolkit for Engaging Patients to Improve Diagnostic Safety – encourages patients and families to tell their stories and providers to listen.  Question Builder – lets people create a list of questions to take to medical appointments. The smartphone app is now also available in a Spanish-language version. The free apps are available in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.  Health literacy is a foundational principle and overarching goal of Healthy People 2030, which established three core objectives for improving organizational health literacy. AHRQ tools can help our country achieve these objectives.  Subscriber Services: Change Your Profile | Unsubscribe | Help Stay Connected: Contact Us | Social Media This email was sent to edwardlorilla1986.paxforex@blogger.com using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) · 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 · 301-427-1364