Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter I. Overview and History of Health Literacy in the United States and the Epidemiology of Low Health Literacy in Healthcare
Raghav Gupta, Christopher J. Kim, Christoph J. Griessenauer, Ajith J. Thomas, and Christopher S. Ogilvy (Division of Neurosurgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, and others)
Chapter II. Printed Education Materials: Analysis, Text Development, & Interventions
Varun Ayyaswami, Anshum Sood, Rafey Feroze, and Logan Pyle (University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, and others)
Chapter III. Health Literacy: How the Internet has Changed the way People Receive Health Information
Srihari Balasubramanian, Jonathan A. Cohen and Jin K. Jung (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, and others)
Chapter IV. Metrics for Assessment of Online Patient Education Materials
Rafey A. Feroze and Michael M. McDowell (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, and others)
Chapter V. Methods and Impact of Improving Health Literacy
Jasmine Kashkoush, Ahmed Kashkoush and Kamil W. Nowicki (University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine1, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, and others)
Chapter VI. Socioeconomic Considerations: Economic Impact of Health Literacy
Prateek Agarwal, Divyansh Agarwal, Tejas Karnati, Tekchand Ramchand, and Carl Kraus (Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, and others)
Chapter VII. Assessing Health Literacy in the Hispanic Community
Ahmed Jorge, James Zhou and Diego Chaves-Gnecco (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, and others)
About the Editors
Index
