Fourth Annual National Health Communication Conference

非加太基金会第四届全国健康传播年会将于2005年11月30日举行。这次会议的标题是“健康素养低下问题的实际解决方案”，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。此外，会议的目的是在2004年会议与会者制定的行动和方案的基础上再接再厉，主要是处方标签标准化项目，该项目已成为非加太基金会的主要规划重点。ACP基金会赞助的研究论文的结果将作为主旨演讲在会议上发表，该论文探索处方标签标准化的实践、法律和政策后果。在会议的第二部分，会议主持人和与会者将进行业务讨论，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，以改善低健康素养。这些下午的讨论将涉及知识渊博的专家和利益攸关方组成的小组，他们专注于推进具体的卫生知识普及目标。一个目标是推进处方药标签标准化项目，该项目将在会议期间通过研究阶段进入政策和行动阶段。从长远来看，会议制定的关于处方标签标准化的行动步骤 和过去几年一样，非加太基金会和其他参与组织将利用其他健康素养问题来改进围绕健康素养的规划。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，该摘要将作为资源通过基金会的网站向公众提供。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9000万美国成年人，他们的健康素养有限，这对穷人、老年人和少数族裔人口的影响不成比例(国际移民组织：《结束困惑的处方》，2004年)。

The ACP Foundation's Fourth Annual National Health Communication Conference will take place November 30, 2005. Titled "Practical Solutions to the Problems of Low Health Literacy," the conference 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. In addition, the conference aims to build on the actions and programs that were developed by participants in the 2004 Conference, primarily the Prescription Label Standardization Project, which has become a primary programming focus of the ACP Foundation. The results of the ACP Foundation-sponsored research paper, which explores the practical, legal, and policy ramifications of prescription label standardization, will be presented as a Keynote Address at the conference. During the second part of the conference, conference presenters and participants will engage in operational discussions whereby industry-specific 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. These afternoon discussions will involve small groups of knowledgeable experts and stakeholders focused on moving forward specific health literacy goals. One goal is the advancement of the Prescription Label Standardization Project, which will be poised to move past the research phase and into the policy and action phase at the time of the conference. In the long-term, the Action Steps developed at the conference regarding prescription label standardization and other health literacy issues will be used, as in past years, by the ACP Foundation and by other participating organizations 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 available 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 knowledgeable 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 disproportionately affects poor, elderly, and minority populations (IOM: 'A Prescription to End Confusion', 2004).