{"title":"Improving Health Literacy","authors":"H. M. Baillie","doi":"10.22374/cjgim.v18i3.704","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Your body is the one thing you take with you from cradle to grave. Many patients don't understand health and disease, and that limits what healthcare providers can achieve. Whether it be diagnosis, tests, treatments, or medication - I would argue improving medical health literacy could make a substantial impact on their wellbeing, and maybe outcomes too. Can we do a better job of patient/population education?","PeriodicalId":9379,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.22374/cjgim.v18i3.704","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Your body is the one thing you take with you from cradle to grave. Many patients don't understand health and disease, and that limits what healthcare providers can achieve. Whether it be diagnosis, tests, treatments, or medication - I would argue improving medical health literacy could make a substantial impact on their wellbeing, and maybe outcomes too. Can we do a better job of patient/population education?