2011 Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit

描述（由申请人提供）：几乎90%的美国成年人在理解健康信息方面有很大的困难，我们有一个没有得到很好认识的重大问题，威胁着我们大多数人的健康和安全。我们的会议将讨论这一问题，办法是吸引各国发言者以及各区域和各国听众了解卫生知识普及的研究成果、循证信息以及他们可用于提高公众对卫生信息的了解的工具。利用前三次成功会议的方法，我们将邀请医生和扫盲教育者，邀请国家、地区和地方发言人总结和交流政策建议、研究成果、循证信息、工具和成人教育干预措施。我们的受众将包括有能力利用这些信息改善保健服务的成果、质量、获取、成本和利用的组织内人员，特别是低收入和少数群体、妇女、儿童、老年人和农村地区居民。会议将通过实现以下目标，为卫生和人类服务部提高卫生知识普及国家行动计划的七个目标中的六个作出贡献：1)吸引全国和区域初级保健医生参与基于实践的研究，将能够将卫生知识普及的研究成果和工具纳入其医疗实践；2)吸引以社区为基础的成人扫盲教育的国家和区域领导者，这些领导者将能够将卫生扫盲实践和干预措施纳入其成人教育方案；3)召集至少25个州卫生扫盲联盟或倡议的代表召开会前会议，为建立全州卫生扫盲联盟分享经验并提供技术援助。4)讨论健康素养的政策含义，因为它与州和国家层面的医疗改革有关。5)传播卫生知识普及做法和干预措施，供受众在其个人工作和组织内用于实现《国家行动计划》的目标。这次会议的独特之处在于，它将汇集演讲者，介绍最新的研究成果和基于证据的信息，但也有临床医生、卫生保健工作者和教育工作者的听众，他们可以自己和在他们的组织中使用这些信息来改善重点人群的结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): With almost 9 out of 10 American adults having significant difficulty understanding health information, we have a major problem that is not well recognized threatening the health and safety of most of our population. Our conference will address this issue by drawing national speakers and a very diverse regional and national audience to learn about health literacy research findings, evidence-based information and tools they can use to improve the public's understanding of health information. Using the methods of three previous successful conferences, we will target invitations to physicians and literacy educators, invite national, regional and local speakers to summarize and communicate policy recommendations, research findings, evidence-based information, tools, and adult education interventions. Our audience will include people within organizations that have the capability to use the information to improve the outcomes, quality, access to, cost and utilization of health care services especially for low income and minority groups, women, children, the elderly and those living in rural areas. The conference will contribute to six of the seven Department of Health and Human Services National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy goals by achieving the following aims: 1) Attract a national and regional audience of primary care physicians engaged in practice-based research that will be able to integrate health literacy research findings and tools into their medical practices; 2) Attract a national and regional audience of leaders in community-based adult literacy education that will be able to integrate health literacy practices and interventions into their adult education programs; 3) Conduct a pre-conference meeting of representatives from at least 25 state health literacy coalitions or initiatives to share experience and provide technical assistance for building statewide health literacy coalitions. 4) Discuss policy implications of health literacy as it relates to healthcare reform at state and national levels. 5) Disseminate health literacy practices and interventions that can be used by the audience to address the National Action Plan goals in their personal work and within their organization. This conference is unique as it will bring together speakers with the latest research findings, and evidence-based information, but also an audience of clinicians, health care workers and educators that can use the information themselves and in the their organizations to improve outcomes for priority populations. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The 2011 Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit will bring together health literacy experts and people working to improve health literacy who will share what they have learned, so others may use the information to help the people they serve. We will talk about health literacy policies, research findings, and education methods with a national audience of literacy educators, librarians, legislators, health document developers, physicians, health educators and other healthcare workers who will be able use the information to help people better understand health information.