Health Literacy in Medicines Use and Pharmacy: A Definitive Guide highlights issues related to medication literacy from the context of the pharmacist and other healthcare professionals. This definitive guide will undoubtedly serve as an invaluable resource for healthcare professionals in training and practice, fostering excellence in patient care globally. The book provides a clear explanation of medication literacy, presents different tools to assess health and medication literacy, readability, and comprehensibility of written medicine information (WMI), and elaborates on different approaches to develop customized and patient-friendly WMI. The book also covers health and medication literacy in special populations, including geriatrics, pediatrics, and pregnant/lactating patients. Written by experts in health communication, this book will help pharmacists, other health professionals, educators, students, and regulators, who need to develop customized educational materials that can be understood by a broad range of patients, especially those with low health literacy.

Tartalomjegyzék:

1. Introduction to Health and Medication Literacy
Ahmed Awaisu, Ikram Zoukh, Emad Eldin Munsour, Parisa Aslani and Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
2. The Importance of Health and Medication Literacy
Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim
3. The Impact of Health and Medication Literacy on Health Outcomes
Vivien Tong and Parisa Aslani
4. Assessment of Health Literacy and Medication Literacy
Ikram Zoukh, Hager Awad Mohammed, Shahd Elamin, Monica Zolezzi and Ahmed Awaisu
5. Evidence-based Interventions for Improving Health and Medication Literacy in Community and Healthcare Settings
Ismaeel Yunusa and Ibraheem M. Karaye
6. Developing Written Health and Medicine Information
Bridget Javed
7. Pharmaceutical Pictograms in Supporting Health Literacy
Ros Dowse
8. Enhancing Health Literacy through User Testing: Iterative Design for Plain Language and Plain Interaction
Kathryn Summers
9. Readability Formulae: Guiding the Development of Health and Medicine Information
Amani Zidan, Emad Eldin Munsour and Nadir Kheir
10. Strategies for Communication Across Health Literacy Levels in Pharmacy Settings
Daniel Rainkie
11. Health and Medication Literacy in Children and their Caregivers
Lina Altayeb
12. Health and Medication Literacy in Older Adults
Noor Alsalemi, Kelley Kilpatrick and Cheryl Sadowski
13. Health and Medication Literacy during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
Larisa Barnes, Danielle Muscat, Lesley Barclay and Parisa Aslani
14. Health Literacy in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Ibrahim Jatau Abubakar and Abubakar Sha'aban
15. The Use of Information and Digital Health Technology in Medication Literacy
Emad Eldin Munsour, Myriam Jaam, Katie MacLure and Philip Crilly
16. Advancing Pharmacy Research on Health Literacy
Aleda M. Chen, Kyrie Eleyson Baden and Anandi V. Law
17. Inter-professional Education and Health Literacy
Alla El-Awaisi, Maguy El Hajj, Dean Lising, Farrah Schwartz and Tracy Paulenko
18. Developing and Incorporating Health and Medication Literacy Content in Pharmacy Curriculum
Ahmed Awaisu, Banan Mukhalalati, Zubin Austin and Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
19. Global Initiatives for Improving Health and Medication Literacy
Nor Mohd Taufek
20. Health Literacy and Medication Safety
Emad Eldin Munsour, Mansour Adam Adam Mahmoud and Rabia Hussain

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