Fourth Annual National Health Communication Conference

描述(由申请人提供)： ACP基金会的第四届全国健康传播年会，“健康素养低下问题的实际解决方案”，首先旨在提出新的、经过验证的实用干预措施，以对抗患者健康素养低下的影响。这些干预措施将向听众介绍，听众中有代表有能力改善低健康素养的组织的专家和领导人。这次会议的第二个目的是让会议主持人和与会者参与业务讨论，从而可以利用会议上已经介绍的信息以及与会者的专业知识制定针对行业的行动步骤，以提高低健康素养。 从长远来看，非加太基金会和其他参与组织将像过去几年一样，利用在大会上制定的行动步骤来改进有关卫生知识的规划。此外，这次会议的成果将在国际移民组织和非加太基金会联合发布的执行摘要中公布，公众可以通过基金会的网站获得这份摘要。通过向领导人和专家提供循证措施，以提高低健康素养，这次会议具有巨大的潜力，通过增强所有患者的知识并参与他们的健康管理，来影响公共卫生。最能感受到改善低健康素养努力的影响的患者将是9000万健康素养有限的美国成年人，这对穷人、老年人和少数族裔人口造成了极大的影响(国际移民组织：《结束困惑的处方》，2004年)。 医学研究所最近的一份报告宣称，健康素养是“被忽视的获得高质量护理的最终途径”(“健康素养”，2004年)。根据全国成人扫盲调查(NALS)，超过9000万美国成年人，即47%，健康素养有限。ACP基金会的“健康素养低下问题的实际解决方案”大会将向最有能力在国家一级实施健康素养变化的专家和领导人介绍经过测试的健康素养低下问题的解决方案。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ACP Foundation's Fourth Annual National Health Communication Conference, "Practical Solutions to the Problems of Low Health Literacy," first aims to present new and proven practical interventions that counter the effects of low patient health literacy. These interventions will be presented to an audience filled with experts and leaders representing organizations that have the capacity to improve low health literacy. The second aim of this conference is engage conference presenters and participants in operational discussions whereby industry-specifc action steps to improve low health literacy can be developed using the information already presented at the conference as well as the expertise of the conference participants. In the long-term, the Action Steps developed at the conference will be used, as they have been in past years, by the ACP Foundation and by other participating organiztions to improve programming surrounding health literacy. Furthermore, the outcomes from this conference will be published in an executive summary released jointly by the IOM and the ACP Foundation, which will be avialable as a resource to the public via the Foundation's website. By equipping leaders and experts with evidence-based measures to improve low health literacy, this conference has significant potential to impact public health by empowering all patients to become knowledgable and engaged in their health management. The patients who will most feel the effects of efforts to improve low health literacy will be the 90 million American adults who suffer from limited health literacy, which disporportionately affects poor, elderly, and minority populations (IOM: 'A Prescription to End Confusion', 2004). A recent report by the Institute of Medicine declares health literacy to be a "neglected, final pathway to highquality care" ('Healty Literacy', 2004). According to the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), over 90 million American adults, or 47 percent, suffer from limited health literacy. The ACP Foundation's "Practical Solutions to the Problems of Low Health Literacy," Conference will present tested solutions for low health literacy to the experts and leaders that are best-equipped to implement health literacy changes on a national level.