Advancing Research in Health Literacy

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定所需的基本健康信息和服务的程度。不幸的是，整整22%的美国成年人只有基本的健康素养，另外14%的人没有基本的健康素养。识字率有限与不良健康后果之间的关系已经得到了很好的证明，医学研究所、医疗保健研究和质量机构、美国医学会和医院组织认证联合委员会等机构发布了关于健康识字问题的开创性报告。这些报告中的每一份都主张进行进一步的研究，以便在卫生保健系统内制定有效的应对措施，以解决这一问题，卫生知识普及方面的研究也开始蓬勃发展。 培育这一新兴研究领域的重要下一步是为致力于健康素养研究的研究人员创建一个全国性的跨学科专业之家。目前还不存在这样的场地。 在这项赠款申请中，我们建议沿着三年的轨迹举办一系列年度会议，致力于促进健康素养研究领域的发展。医学健康知识研究所圆桌会议将提供会议空间，并通过其网站和出版与国家科学院出版社的会议记录来支持传播。本次年会旨在提供一个场所，集中关注健康素养研究，每年强调两个重要的分主题(Y1：健康差距和慢性病患者的信息技术应用；Y2：癌症和老年人；Y3：患者安全和儿童健康)。会议将作为青年研究人员的孵化器，并将鼓励跨学科的知识交流和合作。我们的目标是创造一个环境，让研究界内有争议的话题可以公开讨论。

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 the problem of 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 within health care systems to address the problem 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. Currently no such venue exists. In this grant application we propose to deliver a series of annual conferences along a three-year trajectory dedicated to the promotion of the field of health literacy research. The Institute of Medicine Health Literacy Round Table will provide meeting space and support dissemination via their Web site and by publishing proceedings of the meetings with the National Academies Press. This annual meeting will be designed to provide a venue to focus attention on health literacy research, emphasizing two important sub-themes each year (Y1: health disparities and information technology applications for patients with chronic diseases; Y2: cancer and the elderly; Y3: patient safety and child health). The meeting will serve as an incubator for young investigators and will encourage a cross-disciplinary exchange of knowledge and collaboration. We aim to create an environment in which controversial topics within the research community can be openly discussed.