Health Literacy in Medicines Use and Pharmacy: A Definitive Guide

Health Literacy in Medicines Use and Pharmacy: A Definitive Guide highlights issues related to the medication literacy from the context of pharmacist and other healthcare professionals. This book provides a clear explanation of medication literacy, presents different tools to assess health literacy, readability, and comprehensibility of written medicine information (WMI), elaborates on different approaches to develop customized and patient-friendly WMI, and assists in the global effort for harmonization and availability of quality WMI. Written by experts in medical communication, this book will help pharmacists, other health professionals, educators, and regulators who may be ill-equipped to develop customized education material and provide effective medication literacy information, especially for patients with low health literacy.