How pharmacy teams can provide health education Examples of how pharmacists can build public health literacy and improve patients' ability to understand and manage their health.…
New toolkit addresses the challenges of health literacy Health Education England has launched a free toolkit to help health staff tackle the challenges caused by low levels of health literacy…
Health literacy, medication adherence and thriving healthcare systems: connecting the dots Medication adherence is not only the mantra of modern medicine, but also the catalyst to achieve prevention, cure, and wellbeing.…
Improving medicines education to consumers by redesigning written medicines information resourcesWritten medicines information is an important part of consumer education, with the interpretation of this information dependent on adequate consumer health literacy. This form of education is especially important in an acute care setting where patients may be discharged from hospital on a number of …
Helping patients understand their health issues betterAround 40% of Irish people have limited health literacy — difficulty understanding and acting on health information, such as medication labels and instructions — according to the European Health Literacy Study. The National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) is a not-for-profit organisat…
Information sheet helps educate isotretinoin users about effective contraception Researchers evaluated the impact of an information sheet on contraceptive knowledge in women taking the acne drug isotretinoin.…
