The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released an infographic on health literacy pathways inspired by a February 2013 Health Affairs blog post, "A Proposed 'Health Literate Care Model' Would Constitute A Systems Approach to Improving Patients' Engagement in Care."
The graphic depicts characteristics of health-literate organizations, strategies to improve health literacy and beneficial outcomes of managing health literacy.
Access the graphic at health.gov
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