Health literacy: health professionals’ understandings and their perceptions of barriers

"This study suggests that health professionals have a limited understanding of health literacy and of the consequences of low health literacy for their Indigenous patients."

Health literacy: health professionals’ understandings and their perceptions of barriers that Indigenous patients encounter
M Lambert, J Luke, B Downey, S Crengle, M Kelaher, S Reid, J Smylie
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:614  doi:10.1186/s12913-014-0614-1

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Patient empowerment: for better quality, more sustainable health services globally

"This report highlights some of the lessons and examples from this increasingly global patient empowerment movement. The primary focus is on the role of individuals in their own healthcare, although overlap with the equally important issues of public involvement in health and empowerment in social care are recognised."

Patient empowerment: for better quality, more sustainable health services globally

All Party Parliamentary Groups on Global Health; HIV/AIDs; Population, Development and Reproductive Health; Global Tuberculosis; and Patient and Public Involvement in Health and Social CareMay 2015

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Engaging with individual patients

"Part of the Smart Guides to Engagement series, this guide helps clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and service providers to enable and support the engagement of individuals with healthcare services."

Smart guides to engagement: Engaging with individual patients
D Redding
NHS Networks
December 2013

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Health literacy and health information producers

"Health literacy is broadly about an individual’s ability to make sound health decisions in the context of everyday life and as such, it is an important aspect of their capacity to manage their health and care."

Health literacy and health information producers: report of the findings of a UK wide survey of information producers and providers
Patient Information Forum
October 2013

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