Health Literacy Research Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：Paasche Orlow，M：健康素养研究会议美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）将健康素养定义为“个人获得，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能力程度。“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、美国医学协会和医院组织认证联合委员会等都发布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重要一步是建立国家专业 致力于健康素养研究的跨学科研究人员之家。我们已经通过几次成功的会议奠定了基础。在这项拨款申请中，我们建议扩大我们以前的工作，沿着一个致力于促进健康素养研究领域的多年轨迹，举办一系列三次年度会议。这些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病人安全，干预措施的有效性，质量，预防和护理管理以及信息技术等主题中的作用。会议将作为年轻研究人员的孵化器，并将鼓励知识，合作和创造力的跨学科交流。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别期刊问题的客座编辑;我们计划继续我们成功的传播工作，增加关于健康素养的特别问题。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。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Paasche-Orlow, M: Health Literacy Research Conference 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, American Medical Association, and Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospital Organizations 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 step to cultivate this emerging research field is to establish a national professional interdisciplinary home for investigators dedicated to health literacy research. We have set the stage with several successful meetings. In this grant application we propose to expand on our prior work to deliver a series of three annual conferences along a multi-year trajectory dedicated to the promotion of the field of health literacy research. These meetings will be designed to provide a venue to focus attention on health literacy research, emphasizing the role of health literacy research in topics such as patient safety, effectiveness of interventions, quality, prevention and care management, and information technology. The meeting will serve as an incubator for young investigators and will encourage 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 additional special issues on Health Literacy. 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.