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Research identify health literacy as a silent killer that is widening the gap on healthcare disparities. Healthcare disparity = healthcare literacy because of the direct impact they have on each other. As a result integrating health literacy into planning, evaluating and improving quality of are can have significant impact on healthcare cost.

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Low levels of health literacy are associated with higher levels of emergency department usage and hospital admission (InnovAit, 2016. Many patients utilized the emergency room as primary care doctor and they are being discharged without proper comprehension.

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Policy is always a way to implement change. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, title V of 2010 has highlighted the need for share decision making and transparency of quality information. Share decision making with patients will improve health outcomes, lower cost, and decrease emergency room usage and hospital admission

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Please watch video on health disparity as it relate to health literacy and affect all the system below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBNWaQM2JrE

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5) Population affected by health care disparity are racial/ethnic minorities, and the elderly (Mckinney and Beauchamp, 2016)

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5) Population affected by health care disparity are racial/ethnic minorities, and the elderly (Mckinney and Beauchamp, 2016)

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2) "health disparities are the difference in health as a result of one social, economic, or environmental disadvantage"(Mantwill, Umana and Schulz, 2015).

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2) "health disparities are the difference in health as a result of one social, economic, or environmental disadvantage"(Mantwill, Umana and Schulz, 2015).

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4) 90 million adults in the United States have low health literacy, affecting their ability to make health decision (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthliteracy.html)

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4) 90 million adults in the United States have low health literacy, affecting their ability to make health decision (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthliteracy.html)

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1) One the silent killer impacting today’s society has been identifies as healthcare literacy, which directly impacting healthcare disparity. 

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1) One the silent killer impacting today’s society has been identifies as healthcare literacy, which directly impacting healthcare disparity. 

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9) Improving health literacy in order to reduce disparity

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9) Improving health literacy in order to reduce disparity

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a) Respect the health literacy stage of all
b) consumer
Implement effective evidence based health literacy strategies
C) Avoid stigmatization
D) Address health literacy with patient
E) Integrate health literacy into planning, evaluation measures, patient safety and quality improvement

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3) "Health Literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic information needed to make appropriate action" (http://www.ihi.org)

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3) "Health Literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic information needed to make appropriate action" (http://www.ihi.org)