Health information not communicated well to minority populations

According to the Institute of Medicine, more than 90 million Americans suffer from low health literacy, a mismatch between patients' abilities to understand healthcare information and providers' abilities to communicate complex medical information in an understandable manner. In two recent studies, researchers at the University of Missouri found that two groups - those with limited English proficiency and those with disabilities - experience significantly lower health literacy than the general population...

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