Download or read book Health Literacy in Medicines Use and Pharmacy written by Ahmed Awaisu and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2024-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Literacy in Medicines Use and Pharmacy: A Definitive Guide highlights issues related to the medication literacy from the context of pharmacist and other healthcare professionals. There is a lack of adequate educational resources and textbooks on pharmacy health literacy. This book provides a clear explanation of medication literacy, presents different tools to assess health literacy, readability and comprehensibility of written medicine information (WMI), elaborates on different approaches to develop customized and patient-friendly WMI, and assists in the global effort for harmonization and availability of quality WMI. Written by experts in medical communication, Health Literacy in Medicines Use and Pharmacy will help pharmacists, other health professionals, educators, and regulators who may be ill-equipped to develop customized education material and to provide effective medication literacy information, especially for patients with low health literacy.