I noted this comment: "Here the strength is not in producing new evidence, but in empowering people with existing evidence. And empowerment can be enabled with healthcare information that would be described as basic by health researchers. (In the same way, failure to provide timely, simple, lifesaving treatments are so often due to lack of basic healthcare information.) [ https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/support-systems-43-q3-examples-civil-so... ]
This distance of literacy between researchers and low literacy citizens is larger than often recognized. Researchers strive to find the highest most accurate healthcare language and words invulnerable to dismissal by peer reviews. Low level literacy citizens (50% 0f mos populations) seek a different level of information as well illustrated by the piece (for patient awaiting colonoscopy - An imaging test of colon for detection of abnormalities using a colonoscope) with long words reversed - as illiterate people would see the words. (From Barry Weiss's 2003 AMA Health literacy textbook
Your naicisyhp has dednemmocer that you have a ypocsonoloc. Ypocsonoloc is a test for noloc recnac. It sevlovni gnitresni a elbixelf gniweiv epocs into your mutcer. You must drink a laiceps diuqil the thgin erofeb the noitanimaxe to naelc out your noloc.
HIFA profile: Richard Fitton is a retired family doctor - GP. Professional interests: Health literacy, patient partnership of trust and implementation of healthcare with professionals, family and public involvement in the prevention of modern lifestyle diseases, patients using access to professional records to overcome confidentiality barriers to care, patients as part of the policing of the use of their patient data
Email address: richardpeterfitton7 AT gmail.com
