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Toward Health Equity and Patient-Centeredness: Integrating Health Literacy, Disparities Reduction, and Quality Improvement

May 12, 2008, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The Fairmont Newport Beach, 4500 MacArthur Blvd., Newport Beach, CA

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The Institute of Medicine presents a workshop to facilitate discussion about improving health equity and patient-centeredness through the integration of actions aimed at eliminating health disparities, addressing health literacy, and advancing overall quality improvement.

During this workshop, we will:

• Review the current evidence base for quality improvement approaches that address health literacy and/or reduce disparities
• Describe several paradigmatic efforts to use quality improvement to address health literacy and/or reduce disparities
• Explore several key conceptual and policy questions for quality improvement strategies to address health literacy and/or reduce disparities
• Make linkages between quality improvement, health literacy and disparities reduction, with improving equity and patient-centeredness as the focus

Register online.  For more information, visit www.iom.edu/qiforum.

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