Plain Language-Health Terms
Health Literacy - Misc
True or False
100
Plain language term for hypertension.
What is High Blood Pressure?
100

What is personal health literacy?

Something like: degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.

100
Patients aged 65 and over are at an increased risk of low health literacy.
What is TRUE?
200
Plain language term for Type 2 Diabetes.
What is High Blood Sugar?
200

What is organizational health literacy?

Something like: degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.

200
Approximately 50% of Americans have proficient Health Literacy.
What is FALSE? (12%)
300
A Plain Language term for "cardiovascular".
What is "The heart and blood vessels in the body"?
300

What does AMA mean?

Against Medical Advice

300
When planning your Health Literacy intervention, you must first test your patients' literacy levels.
What is FALSE? Use "Universal Precautions".
400
Plain language way to say "dialysis".
What is (something like) "using a machine to clean waste out of your blood so that your kidneys work well"?
400

Name 3 barriers to health literacy

Any three of: (or others)

  • Language barriers

  • Age 

  • Socioeconomic status

  • Existing health conditions

  • Distrust of medical system

  • Providers that do not know how to use plain language

  • Lack of prioritization of organizational health literacy from healthcare systems 

400
College educated patients are offended by materials written at a low literacy level.
What is FALSE? Research shows that everyone appreciates clear, conscise health information.
500
Plain language way to say "fasting blood glucose".
What is (something like) "a blood test that shows how much sugar is on your blood after not eating or drinking for eight hours."?
500
Ideally, patient materials should not exceed this grade level.
What is fifth grade?
500
Teach Back adds approx 2 minutes to a patient visit.
What is FALSE? Research shows that it does not add extra time to a visit.
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