{"id":954,"date":"2011-07-28T08:10:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/?p=954"},"modified":"2011-07-28T08:37:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:37:56","slug":"first-step-to-health-literacy-ask-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/2011\/07\/28\/first-step-to-health-literacy-ask-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"First step to health literacy: ask questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

As noted in a previous post<\/a>, health literacy<\/em> includes everything from the ability to get care in our complex healthcare system down to being able to understand the instructions on your prescription medicine bottle. A basic foundation to being literate about healthcare is the ability to ask questions. But if your primary language is not English, it can be a source of poor communication between patient and healthcare provider. According to the 2010 National Healthcare Disparities Report<\/a>, Hispanics were “significantly more likely than non-Hispanic Whites to report poor communication” with their healthcare provider. They are more likely to ask friends or casual acquaintances for advice that should come from trained professionals.<\/p>\n

The U.S. government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Ad Council have teamed up to launch a national health campaign<\/a> aimed at empowering Latinos to ask their doctors questions.<\/p>\n

Television, radio, print and Web ads in $30 million worth of donated advertising space will run in Latino-centric media showing people with ailments such as a bad back getting conflicting advice in places such as the laundromat and the barbershop before going to the doctor (from Fox News Latino<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The campaign is called Conoce las Preguntas<\/a> (Know the Questions), and the advertisements direct viewers to the campaign’s website, which provides a kind of “roadmap” to a doctor’s visit. For example, it encourages patients to be clear on prescription instructions, and offers suggested follow-up questions to medical diagnoses. And it includes humorous videos such as this one showing\u00a0 one Latino man asking for advice on an earache, and getting a variety of answers. (Click on the triangle-shaped “play” button to show the video.)<\/p>\n

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Video Credit: REVOLUCI\u00d3N<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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