{"id":1100,"date":"2011-09-22T07:48:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2011-09-22T07:48:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:48:32","slug":"health-literacy-plain-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/2011\/09\/22\/health-literacy-plain-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Literacy: plain language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/files\/2011\/08\/logoHealthLiteracy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-961\" style=\"border: 0pt none;float: right;padding:0.5em\" title=\"Health Literacy logo\" src=\"http:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/files\/2011\/08\/logoHealthLiteracy.png\" alt=\"Health literacy logo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>In a recent post on the University of Michigan Health System News blog, researchers offer &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/p1yqlt\">10 ways to make better decisions about cancer care<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Insist on plain language.<\/li>\n<li>Focus on absolute risk.<\/li>\n<li>Visualize your risk.<\/li>\n<li>Consider risk as a frequency rather than as percentages.<\/li>\n<li>Focus on the additional risk.<\/li>\n<li>The order of information matters.<\/li>\n<li>Write it down.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t get hung up on averages.<\/li>\n<li>Less may be more.<\/li>\n<li>Consider your risk over time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent post on the University of Michigan Health System News blog, researchers offer &#8220;10 ways to make better decisions about cancer care&#8220;: Insist on plain language. Focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,166,83],"tags":[660,659,658],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-information","category-information-literacy","category-medicine","tag-absolute-risk","tag-cancer-care","tag-plain-language"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 20:09:31","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}