Advancing Research in Health Literacy

推进健康素养研究

• 批准号: 8785940
• 负责人: Michael Paasche-Orlow
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-10 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8785940
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Advocate; American; American Medical Association; Applications Grants; Attention; Caring; Chronic Disease; Collaborations; Communities; Creativeness; Development; Discipline; Ensure; Environment; Fostering; Geography; Health; Health Communication; Health Services Research; Healthcare Systems; Home environment; Income; Incubators; Individual; Information Services; Information Technology; Institute of Medicine (U.S.); Intervention; Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals; Journals; Justice; Knowledge; Literature; Measurement; Methods; Minority Groups; Outcome; Patients; Prevalence; Prevention; Process; Publications; Publishing; Reading; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resource Sharing; Role; Self Management; Seminal; Societies; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; caregiving; design; empowerment; health care quality; health disparity; health literacy; improved; instrument; literacy; mathematical ability; meetings; member; patient safety; public health relevance; racial and ethnic; response; skills; special interest group; symposium; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has defined health literacy as the "degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions." Unfortunately, fully 22% of US adults have only basic and an additional 14% have below basic health literacy. The relationship between limited literacy and adverse health outcomes has been well documented, and seminal reports about health literacy have been issued by the Institute of Medicine, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the American Medical Association among others. Each of these reports advocates further research to develop an effective response and research in health literacy has begun to flourish. An important next step to cultivate this emerging research field is to create a national professional interdisciplinary home for investigators dedicated to health literacy research. In this grant application we propose to deliver a sixth annual conference along a multi-year trajectory dedicated to the promotion of the field of health literacy research. This meeting will be designed to provide a venue to focus attention on health literacy research, emphasizing the role of health literacy research in the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities and on patient empowerment. This venue serves crucial functions for the field of health literacy by providing an incubator for young investigators and encouraging a cross-disciplinary exchange of knowledge, collaboration, and creativity. We aim to create an environment in which controversial topics within the research community can be openly discussed. Dr. Paasche-Orlow has served as a guest editor for special journal issues emerging from each of the past meetings; we plan to continue our successful dissemination efforts with another special issue on Health Literacy to be published by the Journal of Health Communication. We also plan to improve the meeting's Web site so that it can serve as a public resource for sharing information about health literacy measurement instruments. This year the meeting will take place on November 3-4, 2014 in Bethesda, MD.

描述（由申请人提供）：美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）将健康素养定义为“个人有能力获得，处理和理解做出适当健康决策所需的基本健康信息和服务的程度”。“不幸的是，22%的美国成年人只有基本的健康知识，另有14%的人低于基本的健康知识。有限的识字率和不良的健康结果之间的关系已经有了很好的记录，医学研究所、医疗保健研究和质量机构以及美国医学协会等机构都发表了关于健康素养的开创性报告。每一份报告都倡导进一步研究，以制定有效的应对措施，卫生知识普及方面的研究已开始蓬勃发展。培养这一新兴研究领域的下一步是为致力于健康素养研究的调查人员创建一个全国性的专业跨学科之家。在这项资助申请中，我们提议沿着一条致力于促进健康素养研究领域的多年轨迹举办第六届年度会议。这次会议的目的是提供一个场所，重点关注健康素养研究，强调健康素养研究在消除种族和民族健康差距和增强患者能力方面的作用。这个场所通过为年轻的研究人员提供孵化器，并鼓励知识，合作和创造力的跨学科交流，为健康素养领域提供了至关重要的功能。我们的目标是创造一个环境，在研究界有争议的话题可以公开讨论。Paasche-Orlow博士曾担任过去每次会议上出现的特殊期刊问题的客座编辑;我们计划继续我们成功的传播工作，由《健康传播杂志》出版另一个关于健康素养的特刊。我们还计划改进会议的网站，使其成为共享卫生知识普及测量工具信息的公共资源。今年的会议将于2014年11月3日至4日在马里兰州贝塞斯达举行。