Tag Archives: health communication

Seven Words, Nearly 20 Years Later: Why Health Literacy Screening Still Matters

By | October 19, 2026
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Clinician and patient review papers

A Landmark Medical Care Study Worth Revisiting Nearly 20 years ago, Medical Care published a study that helped make health literacy assessment practical in busy medical settings. In 2007, Arozullah et al. introduced and validated the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine Short Form (REALM-SF). Their goal was simple: measure patients’ medical reading skills… Read More: Seven Words, Nearly 20 Years Later: Why Health Literacy Screening… »

Hands-On Public Health: A Local, Campus Respiratory Virus Campaign

By | April 11, 2026
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When the world hands you lemons, you learn to make lemonade. In public health, locally sourced is even better. With federal public health guidance in disarray, it can be easy to forget that most public health is, and always has been, local. It is not the federal government that sanitizes water, inspects restaurants, or diagnoses… Read More: Hands-On Public Health: A Local, Campus Respiratory Virus Campaign »

Racial/Ethnic Concordance and Doctor Communication

By | March 14, 2024
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Patient-provider racial/ethnic concordance (i.e., physician and patient identify as the same race/ethnicity) has emerged as one key suggestion for mitigating healthcare disparities. Past research has underlined its benefits, including improved infant mortality and more appropriate prescription regimens. However, the sum of the evidence remains unclear and many facets of the patient-provider relationship have yet to… Read More: Racial/Ethnic Concordance and Doctor Communication »