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      NIDCD Hosts First Health Literacy Lecture: Babel Babble: What is the Doctor Saying? What is the Patient Understanding?


*Bethesda, MD
October 21, 2002*

Illustration for health literacy lecture entitled Babel Babble:  What is the Doctor Saying? What is the Patient Understanding?



Dean Schillinger, M.D. 
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
University of California, San Francisco 
San Francisco General Hospital



October 21, 2002
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
NIH Clinical Center
Lipsett Auditorium, Building 10
Bethesda, MD

Health literacy is a specific area of health communication that focuses upon the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Individuals who have challenges of literacy, language or access to health information are at greater risk for disease and have increased likelihood of misusing medication. Health literacy is a major public health need.

**Directions and Maps:**

Directions to the NIH Clinical Center
	Map of the first floor of the NIH Clinical Center
	Visitor's campus mapDue to security measures at NIH, off-campus visitors are advised to consult the NIH Visitors and Security Web site.

**For more information, contact:**

Marin P. Allen, Ph.D.
Communication Director
Chief, Office of Health Communication 
and Public Liaison 
NIH/NIDCD
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: 301-827-8183
E-mail: Marin_Allen@nih.gov
      
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