Health literacy-the ability for individuals to obtain, process, and understand basic health
information and services to facilitate appropriate health decisions-is increasingly recognized
as an important facet of health care and health outcomes. Although research on health
literacy has grown tremendously in the past decade, there is no widely agreed-upon
framework for health literacy as a determinant of health outcomes. Most instruments focus on
assessing an individual's health literacy, yet the scope of health literacy reaches far beyond …

Organizational Change to Improve Health Literacy is the summary of a workshop convened
in April 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Board on Population Health and Public Health
Practice Roundtable on Health Literacy. As a follow up to the 2012 discussion paper Ten
Attributes of a Health Literate Health Care Organization, participants met to examine what is
known about implementation of the attributes of a health literate health care organization
and to create a network of health literacy implementers who can share information about …