In the United States today, the early literacy of preschool children echoes throughout their future academic achievement, economic prosperity, and ultimately, their physi [...]

Assessment of health professionals' jargon use in spoken communication as well as the efficacy of interventions to reduce jargon use by health professionals in clinical e [...]

Graphic medicine is visual storytelling about illness, health, medicine, and science. Graphic medicine comics allow “readers to consider visual and text-based representat [...]

Half of US adults read below an 8th-grade level, making health literacy a significant barrier in patient-provider communication. Low health literacy levels contribute to [...]

February 2015 issue of the Scribe. Contents include: "Health literacy boosts patient care, satisfaction," "Steps taken to address prescription painkiller abuse, but more [...]

Among high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients with high rates of poverty, did those patients with low health literacy (HL) scores predict worse utilization outcomes?

Many senior adult patients often face the use of multiple medications with challenges in adhering to the agreed-upon regimens. This study focused on addressing health li [...]

Susan Shugerman, M.F.A., Ed.D., was the Assistant Vice Provost for Education Outreach and Collaboration at OHSU. In this interview, Dr. Shugerman reflects on her role in [...]

This DNP project sought to increase cervical health literacy in a group of Latinx-identifying Pacific Northwest County residents at risk for cervical cancer through small [...]

The goal of this presentation was to introduce the concept of mindful eating to adolescents as an alternative strategy for maintaining a healthy weight. In addition to re [...]