Offers up-to-date information on health literacy as it affects children's health for students, residents, and practitioners Reviews in-depth topical areas that are relevant for doctor-patient relationships, understanding of medical information, medical error reduction, patient safety, compliance with medical instructions, quality of care, and patient satisfaction Seeks to improve the quality of care practitioners deliver to pediatric patients by facilitating patient understanding of medical information, thus increasing patient compliance and patient satisfaction and decreasing miscommunication and medication errors Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Rosina Avila Connelly, MD, MPH , is an associate professor of Pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama. Connelly also is a physician leader of Outpatient General Pediatrics at the Children's Medical Center and a member of the Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction Committee at the USA Children's and Women's Hospital, both of which are affiliated with the University of South Alabama Health System.
Teri Turner, MD, MPH , is associate professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Turner also is associate director of house staff education, director of the Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship, and Director of the Center for Research, Innovation, and Scholarship.

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I. Introduction to Health Literacy and Health Communication.- II. Health Literacy and Child Health Outcomes: From the Perinatal and Birth Period to Young Adulthood.- III. Health Literacy Universal Precautions: Strategies for Communication With All Patients.- IV. Health Literacy and Effective Health Communication in Pediatric Practices and Health Systems.- V. Health Literacy and Medical Education.- VI. Health Literacy and Child Health, From Research to Policy Implications.