Volume : 7, Issue : 2, February - 2018

HealthBeat: Pioneering efforts by Dr. Shashank Kraleti using medical news coverage in simple language to improve health literacy

Sumit N Fogla

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Inadequacy in health literacy is a hidden epidemic. &ldquo;Do you understand?&rsquo; The patient often nods or provides an excuse that s/he will go home and read, or may have forgotten the reading glasses. Underlying however is the fact that many of the issues raised during a clinical encounter may not have been registered adequately at all. This is at the heart of lowered quality of care.<o:p></o:p></span></p>