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by lloyd-christmas
3854 days ago
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While I hate to be THAT cynical... my father is a doctor, and they've had issues with patients not understanding their paperwork. They had done studies to figure out the median reading level of their patients. It turned out to be an 8th grade level, so they adapted their paperwork. The patients still didn't understand it. It turned out that they were capable of reading at an 8th grade level, but their reading COMPREHENSION level was that of a 6th grader. |
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"90 million adults with limited health literacy cannot fully benefit from much that the health and health-care system have to offer."
"A two-year-old is diagnosed with an inner ear infection and prescribed an antibiotic. Her mother understands that her daughter should take the prescribed medication twice a day. After carefully studying the label on the bottle and deciding that it doesn't tell how to take the medicine, she fills a teaspoon and pours the antibiotic into her daughter's painful ear."
http://hospitals.unm.edu/health_literacy/pdfs/HealthLiteracy...