Literacy, cultural diversity, and client education...reprinted from R.E. Davidhizar and K. Brownson, Literacy, Cultural Diversity, and Client Education, Health Care Manager, Vol. 18. No. 1, pp. 39-47, © 1999 Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Client education offers many challenges to health care professionals. There is a mismatch between the reading level of most clients and the reading level of printed materials used in health education. Social and cultural factors also influence how our clients are able to learn about their health. Th...
| Publicado en: | Home Health Care Management & Practice Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 38 - 45 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Journal Article |
| Publicado: |
Sage Publications Inc.
Feb2000
|
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=107099830&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 107099830 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10848223 96C jtl: Home Health Care Management & Practice issn: 10848223 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Feb2000 vid: 12 iid: 2 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 107099830 2000024296 107099830 ppf: 38 ppct: 7 formats: tig: atl: Literacy, cultural diversity, and client education...reprinted from R.E. Davidhizar and K. Brownson, Literacy, Cultural Diversity, and Client Education, Health Care Manager, Vol. 18. No. 1, pp. 39-47, © 1999 Aspen Publishers, Inc. aug: au: Davidhizar RE Brownson K sug: subj: Literacy Cultural Diversity Patient Education Social Class Information Needs Communication Skills Consumer Health Information Readability ab: Client education offers many challenges to health care professionals. There is a mismatch between the reading level of most clients and the reading level of printed materials used in health education. Social and cultural factors also influence how our clients are able to learn about their health. These problems can lead to noncompliance with treatments, missed appointments, wrong dosages of medication, and undue fear among our clients. There are things that health care professionals can do to make written materials more user-friendly and culturally more acceptable. Copyright © 2000 by Aspen Publishers, Inc. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|