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Patient education is a learning process to support patients with a disease or health condition. It can improve understanding, self-management, adherence, satisfaction, and health outcomes. Learn more about the topics, methods, and competencies of patient education.
Health education is a profession of educating people about health, covering various aspects such as environmental, physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health. Learn about the origins, evolution, and functions of health education from ancient civilizations to the present day.
Health literacy is the ability to understand and use health information to make informed decisions and follow instructions. Learn about the factors that influence health literacy, the levels of health literacy, and the role of plain language in improving communication and outcomes.
Any education delivered verbally by a healthcare provider to a single patient or group of patients can be considered as On Location patient education. Although this is still the most commonly used patient education method it is time-consuming, can have consistency problems, and relies heavily on the individual patient ability to absorb ...
A medical doctor explaining an X-ray to a patient. Several factors help increase patient participation, including understandable and individual adapted information, education for the patient and healthcare provider, sufficient time for the interaction, processes that provide the opportunity for the patient to be involved in decision-making, a positive attitude from the healthcare provider ...
The Donabedian model is a framework for examining and evaluating health services based on three categories: structure, process, and outcome. Structure describes the context of care, process denotes the transactions between patients and providers, and outcome refers to the effects of care on health status.
Grand rounds are a method of presenting and discussing patient cases to a group of doctors, pharmacists, residents, and medical students. Learn about the origin, purpose, format, and video archives of grand rounds in different teaching hospitals.
Learn about the interdisciplinary field of health communication that studies and practices communicating health information to influence personal and public health choices. Explore the origins, purposes, methods, and impact of health communication research and campaigns.