Health literacy in medicines use and pharmacy: A definitive guide (2024)

Summary

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.

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, paediatrics, 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 customised educational materials that can be understood by a broad range of patients, especially those with low health literacy.