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- Title
Can Integrating Health Literacy into the Patient-centered Medical Home Help us Weather the Perfect Storm?
- Authors
Ridpath, Jessica; Larson, Eric; Greene, Sarah
- Abstract
Improving health literacy is one key to buoying our nation's troubled health care system. As system-level health literacy improvement strategies take the stage among national priorities for health care, the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of care emerges as a compelling avenue for their widespread implementation. With a shared focus on effective communication and team-based care organized around patient needs, health literacy principles and the PCMH are well aligned. However, their synergy has received little attention, even as PCMH demonstration projects and health literacy interventions spring up nationwide. While many health literacy interventions are limited by their focus on a single point along the continuum of care, creating a 'room' for health literacy within the PCMH may finally provide a multi-dimensional, system-level approach to tackling the full range of health literacy challenges. Increasing uptake coupled with federal support and financial incentives further boosts the model's potential for advancing health literacy. On the journey toward a revitalized health care system, integrating health literacy into the PCMH presents a promising opportunity that deserves consideration.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HEALTH literacy; HEALTH education; MEDICAL care; PATIENT-centered care
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2012, Vol 27, Issue 5, p588
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-011-1964-6