PLAIN Health Indicators from an intercultural study in Health Literacy & Adherence Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication, IUPUI International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH) Miami, FL, October 5, 2009 Presenter: Kathryn Lauten, PhD, Associate Director, ICIC, IUPUI Additional Research Team Members: Marta Antón, Applied Linguistics, Spanish Linguistics, IUPUI Julie Belz, Applied Linguistics, English, IUPUI Ulla Connor, Applied Linguistics, English, Director ICIC, IUPUI Elizabeth Goering, Communication, IUPUI Paris Roach, Endocrinology, IUPUI James Wolf, Sociology, IUPUI Stephanie Balunda, ICIC Amir Hayat, ICIC
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PLAIN Health Indicators from an intercultural study in Health Literacy & Adherence
Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication, IUPUI
International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH)
“Health Literacy” is an accepted umbrella term defined as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions”
“Health Literacy” should be used to encompass reading, numeracy, speaking and listening ability, knowledge of medical terms, ability to navigate the health system, and ability to manage one’s health
ICIC aims to remove the confusion around the term “health literacy”, turn energy less toward explaining a term and more toward acting on meaning; suggests the use of “PLAIN Health indicators” as an umbrella term
Intercultural Interactive Communication -- with health care providers, family and friends
Numeracy
Advocates idea of using plain language
“Understanding the relative contributions of direct and indirect pathways [between health literacy and health outcomes] is crucial for the development of effective interventions to improve health outcomes [...] First, it is clear that low literacy is not universally associated with poor self-reported adherence to medications for the few conditions examined to date. Other research, however, suggests that patients with low literacy may have initial difficulty with learning self-care behaviors and enacting them, but that with ongoing support and additional training, they can overcome these barriers.”
Pignone, M. P., & DeWalt, D. A. (2006). Literacy and health outcomes: Is adherence the missing link? Journal of General Internal Medicine, 21(8), 896-897.