Health Literacy for Healthy People: The Legacy of Dr. Rima Rudd

After education professionals in the 1990s documented that many adults had difficulty using print materials to accomplish everyday tasks (National Center for Education Statistics, 1999), Dr. Rudd documented related barriers for individuals trying to navigate the health care system. [...]she pushed m...

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Published in:Health literacy research and practice 2024-07, Vol.8 (3), p.e162-e165
Main Authors: Koh, Howard K, Brach, Cindy, Ochiai, Emmeline, Bishop, Jennifer A, Blakey, Carter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communication
Disease prevention
Health care
Health disparities
Health education
Health Literacy
Health promotion
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Hospitals
Humans
Organizational change
Patients
Personal health
Public health
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Summary:After education professionals in the 1990s documented that many adults had difficulty using print materials to accomplish everyday tasks (National Center for Education Statistics, 1999), Dr. Rudd documented related barriers for individuals trying to navigate the health care system. [...]she pushed many to appreciate that health literacy is a prerequisite not just for patient-centered care in the clinic but also more broadly for health equity and well-being in the community. [...]in the publication The Health Literacy Environment of Hospitals and Health Centers (Rudd & Anderson, 2006), not only was an audit tool represented to assess hospitals and health care centers for health literacy barriers but also an improvement tool for formulating an action plan. Since its publication, HHS and others have created organizational health literacy assessments (Brach, n.d.; Jacobson, 2007) that have accelerated the momentum. In part, due to an Issue Brief co-authored by Dr. Rudd (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2019), health literacy has joined health disparities and health equity as foundational principles and overarching goals for a healthier nation.
ISSN:2475-6024
2474-8307
2474-8307
DOI:10.3928/24748307-20240819-01