{"id":4288,"date":"2020-08-17T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2020-08-17T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T14:34:07","slug":"aug-25-health-literacy-workshop-at-hs-hsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=4288","title":{"rendered":"Aug. 25: Health Literacy Workshop at HS\/HSL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/patient-care.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/patient-care.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/patient-care-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/patient-care-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Nurse and elderly man spending time together &#8212; Image by \u00a9 Jose Luis Pelaez, Inc.\/Blend Images\/Corbis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you aware of your patients&#8217; ability to understand and act on the information you give them? There is evidence that health care providers overestimate what patients are able to understand. Low health literacy is associated with higher mortality, higher rates of hospitalization and readmission, and poor self-management skills for chronic disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This workshop covers the basics of health literacy and clear communication, including tools that will assist you in creating easy-to-read materials. This workshop is online Aug. 25, from 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hshsl\/workshops\/index.cfm\">Register&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong>today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you aware of your patients&#8217; ability to understand and act on the information you give them? There is evidence that health care providers overestimate what patients are able to understand. Low health literacy is associated with higher mortality, higher &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=4288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-workshops","tag-health-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}