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Tutorial 1—Resources for Professionals

Health literacy

Consumer health information is useless if the people who could benefit from it don't know what to do with it. Health literacy [http://www.healthinfoiowa.org/tutorials/glossary.html#literacy] "refers to the set of skills needed to read, understand, and act on basic health care information." (The Center for Health Care Strategies and National Academy on Aging Society [http://www.agingsociety.org/agingsociety/publications/fact/fact_low.html]

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