RenaLink Professional Council Newsletter - Spring 2023

Gloria Chen, LCSW-S, CCTSW
Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas at Austin

A national survey found that 36% of adults in the United States had inadequate health literacy skills to manage the demands of the healthcare system. Among patients with kidney disease, prevalence of limited health literacy has been found to be even higher with upward estimates at 49.6%.

Matilde E. Ladnier, MBA, RD, LD
CRN Chair

Most people, including myself, have a somewhat loose understanding of the term “health literacy”. The actual definition of health literacy was updated in August 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control (1). There are two types of health literacy:
• Personal health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.
• Organization health literacy is the degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.

Lynda Parke, RD
NCPRO ANDHII Subcommittee

Did you know that using the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Health Informatics Infrastructure (ANDHII®) is free for all Academy members and CDR registrants?

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