Editors:
- Offers up-to-date information on health literacy as it affects children’s health for students, residents, and practitioners
- Reviews in-depth topical areas that are relevant for doctor-patient relationships, understanding of medical information, medical error reduction, patient safety, compliance with medical instructions, quality of care, and patient satisfaction
- Seeks to improve the quality of care practitioners deliver to pediatric patients by facilitating patient understanding of medical information, thus increasing patient compliance and patient satisfaction and decreasing miscommunication and medication errors
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Child Health (BRIEFSCHILD)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This compact resource presents current data on health literacy as it affects child health outcomes, with a sharp focus on improving communication between healthcare providers and pediatric patients and their families. A frequently overlooked social determinant of health in children, health literacy is shown as a critical skill for patients and families and a key aspect of patient engagement. The authors’ evidence-based survey pinpoints common problems in healthcare providers’ verbal and written communication with pediatric patients, their parents, and/or caregivers. Readers will learn about practical health literacy strategies for addressing and preventing miscommunication at the individual and systems levels. These improvements are linked to immediate results (e.g., greater compliance, fewer medication errors) as well as improved long-term child health outcomes, including reduced health disparities and enhanced quality of life into adulthood.
This transformativeguide:
- Defines optimum health communication as necessary for working with all patients
- Identifies common barriers to clear health communication
- Traces the relationship between health literacy and child health outcomes, from the prenatal period and into young adulthood
- Offers guidelines for creating effective patient education materials and a safe, health literacy oriented patient-centered environment
- Integrates health literacy into health systems’ quality improvement plans
Health Literacy and Child Health Outcomes informs students in MPH programs as well as public health scientists and scholars, and can also serve as an introductory text for students in public health ethics or a general applied ethics course. Public health professionals in diverse contexts such as local health departments and nonprofit organizations will appreciate its robust approach to ethical practice, professional development, and systems improvement. This will be a helpful guide for introducing health communication topics in medical education and allied health. Lastly, clinicians taking care of pediatric patients will find concise information and practical advice to apply in the clinical setting.
Keywords
- Health Literacy
- Health Communications
- Doctor-Patient Communication
- Teach Back
- Patient Education
- Medical Errors
- Doctor-Patient Relationships
- Patient Safety
- Patient Counseling
- Health Policy
- Child Health Outcomes
- Patient Management
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Medication Errors
- Health Care Quality
- Patient Satisfaction
- Medical Education
- Quality Improvement
- maternal and child health
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics, University of South Alabama, Mobile, USA
Rosina Avila Connelly
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Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, USA
Teri Turner
About the editors
Teri Turner, MD, MPH, is associate professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Turner also is associate director of house staff education, director of the Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship, and Director of the Center for Research, Innovation, and Scholarship.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Literacy and Child Health Outcomes
Book Subtitle: Promoting Effective Health Communication Strategies to Improve Quality of Care
Editors: Rosina Avila Connelly, Teri Turner
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50799-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50798-9Published: 07 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50799-6Published: 30 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-3698
Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 100
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Maternal and Child Health, Pediatrics, General Practice / Family Medicine