Innovations in Health Literacy Research: Workshop Summary by Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Author:Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Health and Medicine
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS
Published: 2011-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

At NIH, this research is distributed across institutes and centers, but there is an effort to improve coordination and identify gaps for funding. OptNet opportunity network is providing more than $30 million to look at the broad topic of basic behavioral research. Not surprisingly in many areas of research, including this area, some basic issues of methods and measures are often a core part of the gap that is identified.

The NAP’s Goal 7 focuses on increasing dissemination and use of evidence-based health literacy practices and interventions. The NIH is interested in doing a better job of translating research results for use in real-world settings. One of NIH Director Francis Collins’ five priorities is to fund research that is relevant for health care reform. A big part of this priority is helping us disseminate the evidence we have so that it is more widely used across populations. The NIH has a long history of funding support in the area of dissemination and implementation research.14 There is also an annual NIH conference sponsored by the office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research that focuses on the science of dissemination and implementation. Health care reform and renewed interest in comparative effectiveness research make this work particularly important.

14 See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-038.html; http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-039.html; http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-040.html.

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