U.S. Congress - S.2424 National Health Literacy Act of 2007
S.2424 - National Health Literacy Act of 2007
A bill to ensure that all Americans have basic health literacy skills to function effectively as patients and health care consumers. view all titles (2)
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- Short: National Health Literacy Act of 2007 as introduced.
- Official: A bill to ensure that all Americans have basic health literacy skills to function effectively as patients and health care consumers. as introduced.
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Official Summary
12/6/2007--Introduced.National Health Literacy Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to establish within the Agency a Health Literacy Implementation Center to enhance efforts to eliminate low health liteOfficial Summary
12/6/2007--Introduced.National Health Literacy Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to establish within the Agency a Health Literacy Implementation Center to enhance efforts to eliminate low health literacy by improving measurements, research, development, and information dissemination. Defines "health literacy" as an individual's ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health care decisions.
Directs the Center to:
(1) make health literacy resources available to researchers, health care providers, and the public;
(2) sponsor demonstration and evaluation projects;
(3) develop the next generation of health literacy interventions and tools;
(4) identify and fill research gaps relating to health literacy that have direct applicability to quality improvement;
(5) assist federal agencies in establishing specific objectives and strategies for carrying out the Center's purpose and in monitoring programs;
(6) enter into implementation partnerships to promote adoption of literacy interventions and tools; and
(7) enter into an interagency agreement to facilitate coordination of health literacy activities within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Education.
Requires:
(1) the Center to convene at least one annual public meeting to help raise awareness about the problem of health literacy and federal and state efforts to address the issue;
(2) the Director of the Center to award grants to states to provide for the establishment of a network of state or regional health literacy resource centers;
(3) a state health literacy resource center to meet at least annually to share a model of best practices; and
(4) the HHS Secretary to contract with the Institute of Medicine to identify opportunities within HHS to improve the public's health literacy through the Medicare and Medicaid programs and at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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"Brainsuckers": The Changing Face of the 21st Century Patient
S.2424 aims "to ensure that all Americans have basic health literacy skills to function effectively as patients and health care consumers." According to American Medical News, the legislation, if passed, "would establish a health ...
NormCare instead of real healthcare reform
Norm Coleman (R-MN) has introduced the National Health Literacy Act (S. 2424). This bill will attempt to improve Americans knowledge as patients and ability to navigate our byzantine health system. The most byzantine part is undoubtedly ...
Access to Health Information: National Health Literacy Act S. 2424 ...
Access to Information: National Health Literacy Act S. 2424 is online. + Track the legislation using the wonderful GovTrack.us. RSS feeds available. + Read the legislation sponsored by Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) via THOMAS ...
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