Health literacy—the degree to which individuals can access, comprehend, and use information to make health care decisions—is a critical skill that enables people to engage in healthy behaviors to ...

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In Texas, these gaps are even more pronounced in communities with barriers related to language, income, education and access ...

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 ...

Population health management brings health concerns into focus and addresses ways that resources can be allocated to improve the health of a group of people called a “population.” The National ...

Find out more about a revised digital health literacy scale and what it means for equitable digital health care.

The Covid-19 pandemic has once again shown that “one-size-fits-all” doesn’t really work in public or population health. (Photo: Getty) The Covid-19 pandemic has once again shown that ...

The Population Health Care Delivery Model presents delivery systems with a framework for developing, piloting, and implementing population health programs across the continuum of care. Objectives: ...