Essay On Health Literacy

I think it is very important to have the education, skills, and knowledge to be a medical professional especially in the medical administration field. I will obtain a degree in Medical Information Technology, ATA Degree-Medical Billing Specialist Certificate and my expected graduation date is June 2017. I have over 16 years of medical administration experience and with that I also have I have a lot of medical experience as a Navy Corpsman with a wide range of specialties. The most important issue I learned in my medical career is you can have all that experience and it will not help you understand the patients that you are treating, prescribing medications, and in general directions for follow up care.

The most common problem in medicine these days is communication from the provider and medical staff to the patient receiving and understanding the information. That’s why I’m going to write about health literacy. Health literacy is the capability to obtain, process, and realize the fundamental health information and services to make suitable health decisions. This is necessary to encourage people and societies to be healthy. Health care institutions and public health systems perform a critical role in health literacy because they can make it easier or more complex for people to find and use health information and services. There are national data to

Inadequate health literacy impacts all segments of the population, but it is more ordinary in certain demographic groups such as the elderly, poor, members of minority groups, and people who do not speak English during early childhood. The economic costs of limited literacy on the health care system are huge, estimated to cost fifty billion dollars and seventy-five billion dollars per