Health Literacy in Medicines Use and Pharmacy: A Definitive Guide highlights issues related to the medication literacy from the context of pharmacist and other healthcare professionals. This book provides a clear explanation of medication literacy, presents different tools to assess health literacy, readability, and comprehensibility of written medicine information (WMI), elaborates on different approaches to develop customized and patient-friendly WMI, and assists in the global effort for harmonization and availability of quality WMI. Written by experts in medical communication, this book will help pharmacists, other health professionals, educators, and regulators who may be ill-equipped to develop customized education material and provide effective medication literacy information, especially for patients with low health literacy.
1. Introduction to Medication Literacy and Health Literacy in Pharmacy
2. Assessment of Health Literacy
3. Global initiatives for promotion of medication literacy
4. Written medicine information
5. Pharmaceutical pictograms
6. The use of information technology in medication literacy
7. Approaching patients with low health literacy to improve communication and outcomes – Communication strategies
8. Promoting health literacy practices in pharmacy through quality improvement
9. Health literacy issues in community pharmacy setting
10. Health literacy issues in pediatrics and their caregivers
11. Perspectives of prescribers towards medication literacy issues in tertiary care setting
12. User testing as a tool to improve medication literacy
13. Health Literacy Pharmacy Education: Developing Medication Literacy Curriculum
14. Advancing Pharmacy Research on Health Literacy
15. Establishment of a multidisciplinary medicines information network
16. Medical Interpreters Training for health care professionals
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