The Mental Health Literacy Collaborative helps states teach their students and adults the language to advocate for their needs.

Mr C, a 72-year-old patient with type 2 diabetes, is brought to the emergency department comatose with a blood sugar of 29 mg/dL. When seen in his primary care provider’s office the previous day, his ...

Male patient tells the doctor about his health complaints. Over the years, I have talked to thousands of patients and community members who make it painfully clear that our health communication ...

Health literacy is a concept that addresses an individual’s ability to “find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.” ...

Low health literacy is a problem for a substantial proportion of people with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to research published in The Journal of Head Trauma ...

Health literacy is increasingly recognised as a pivotal determinant in the effective management of chronic diseases. It encompasses the ability of individuals to access, comprehend and utilise health ...

Many factors impact our health beyond genetics and aging. Collectively, these are called the social determinants of health, and factors such as: education, housing, income, occupation, hunger, ...

The first patient I met as a medical student was a middle-aged delivery man and a former track athlete. He was recovering ...

More than 50 American medical schools are committing to the Trump administration’s request to increase the amount and quality of nutrition education training doctors receive before graduating. Health ...

A new proposal, Senate Bill 3325, would allow health care professionals to count menopause education toward the state’s implicit bias training requirement, drawing criticism from physician and state ...