Source: Ilan Kelman Mental health literacy can overcome the reticence to talk about mental health and well-being. The Mental Health Literacy Collaborative, founded in 2023, has promoted and ...

Education is a critical social determinant of health, largely because of its outsized impact on income and therefore other SDOH. There’s some clear-cut evidence underscoring the impact education has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health innovation, care access barriers and prevention. Over the years, I have talked to thousands of patients and ...

A 29-year-old African-American woman with three days of abdominal pain and fever was brought to a Baltimore emergency department by her family. After a brief evaluation she was told that she would ...

Health literacy plays a central role in health outcomes, equity, and access to care. It reflects the dynamic interaction between individual skills, communication practices, materials and tasks, and ...

You trust health information to help you make important decisions. But when medical terms are unfamiliar, information is difficult to find, or advice seems to conflict, knowing what to do next can ...

Our teams at Lee Health take great pride in being trusted sources of health information and serving as advocates and partners for our patients and their families. For nearly 110 years, we have been ...

A school-based experiment in Ghana has delivered a strikingly simple message with potentially far-reaching consequences: when it comes to teaching adolescents about sexual and reproductive health, the ...

The Gerontology Institute is committed to providing quality health literacy education for individuals serving older adults and caregivers. We offer a variety of presentations, workshops, and trainings ...