Optimizing Health Literacy for Improved Clinical Practices

Optimizing Health Literacy for Improved Clinical Practices

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Vassilios E. Papalois, Maria Theodosopoulou
Release Date: June, 2018|Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 338
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4074-8
ISBN13: 9781522540748|ISBN10: 1522540741|EISBN13: 9781522540755
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Description:

Scientific evidence from different countries around the globe shows that those with low or inadequate health-related knowledge and skills include all ages, social, and economic backgrounds. The consequences of this inadequacy simultaneously affect individuals, healthcare systems, and society in many ways, such as healthcare quality and cost. Research on health literacy can provide insight on how to improve the communication of health issues, raise awareness, and promote the lifelong learning of patients and healthcare professionals.

Optimizing Health Literacy for Improved Clinical Practices examines the latest advances in providing and helping patients and medical professionals to understand basic health information and the services that are most appropriate. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as patient engagement, mobile health, and health communication, this book is geared towards medical professionals, hospital adminstrators, healthcare providers, academicians, and researchers in the field.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Care Management
  • Chronic Disease
  • Digital Literacy
  • Electronic Health
  • Health Communication
  • Mobile Health
  • Patient Education
  • Patient Engagement
  • Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement
  • Urban Health
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Vassilios Papalois, MD, PhD, FICS, FRCS, FEBS, is Professor of Transplantation Surgery and Consultant Transplant and General Surgeon at the Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London, UK. He leads a Transplant Centre of Excellence focusing on high risk and extended criteria kidney and pancreas transplantation. He has been active in surgical research for more than 20 years and has published 190 papers in peer review journals, 15 book chapters and 6 books. His research focuses on pre-transplant assessment and reconditioning of marginal kidney and pancreas grafts, use of stem cells for treatment of chronically scarred allografts, clinical ethics and health policy. He has been awarded, through competitive processes, more than £1,000,000 in research grants. Professor Papalois has extensive experience in the NHS in Clinical Governance and Medico-Legal issues, is NIHR NW London Subspecialty Lead for Transplantation, Chairs the Ethics Committee of the Avon and Somerset Constabulary and he is a member of the Research Ethics Committee of the UK Ministry of Defence. He is the President Elect of the European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT), the Secretary General of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), Member of the Executive Board of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI), Member of Council of the European Society of Surgery (ESS) andMember of the Council of the British Journal of Surgery Society (BJS). Professor Papalois organises annually a series of advanced international courses on transplant training, clinical ethics and health policy and has given more than 120 lectures in international forums as an invited speaker. He has been awarded a Bronze National Award for Clinical Excellence by the UK Department of the Health, a Senior Clinical Investigator Award by the European Society for Organ Transplantation and a Teaching Excellence Award by Imperial College.
Maria Theodosopoulou has studied Philosophy, Education and Psychology, has a Master's degree in Career Counselling, and a PhD in Lifelong Learning. Currently, she is finishing her second PhD, which focuses on Health Literacy at Imperial College London. She has worked for more than ten years in the fields of lifelong learning and adult education. Her work supports the idea that health literacy skills are part of a lifelong learning journey that first starts in families and schools.
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