Improving Health Literacy Within a State: Workshop Summary by Maria Hewitt

Author:Maria Hewitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2014-06-13T00:00:00+00:00

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Campus Response

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UC Berkeley–Public Health No specific curriculum on health literacy; this topic is included in various courses. Sessions are taught for Joint Medical Program students (Berkeley and UCSF) and for the public health students in Public Health Interventions class as well as in sessions for other professors’ courses.

UC Davis–Medicine Health literacy is embedded in the 3-year Doctoring course.

UC Davis–Nursing New school—entering class is Masters and Ph.D. level. No specific curricula developed yet.

UC Irvine–Medicine Through the Reynolds Foundation grant, several sessions in the curriculum touch on health literacy (mainly to address health disparities).

UC Irvine–Nursing Health literacy is taught throughout the curriculum in both the Adult Health Care course and Community-Based Health Care course for undergraduate nursing students. It is also taught in the Human Behavior and Mental Health courses at the graduate level.

UCLA–Medicine Session held early in the third year curriculum on health literacy.

Introduced “teach back” as a technique to verify patient understanding.

“Low literacy” guidelines and scenarios developed as teaching resources.

Design & Technology unit developing an online module based on presentation by Dr. Fernandez (UCSF).

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