AHRQ, IOM weigh in on developing a health-literate America.
Low health literacy is "a very underappreciated problem," Institute of Medicine (IOM) president Harvey Fineberg, MD, said at a Washington, DC, media briefing that introduced reports on health literacy from the IOM and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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