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[Agency] NIH [Project Title] A PATIENT ADVOCATE AND LITERACY-BASED TREATMENT OF ASTHMA [Institution] UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA [Amount] $505,555 [Summary] Half of US adults have no more than basic reading and numerical skills. A consequence is inadequate health literacy, which is associated with unsatisfactory patient-provider communication and poor health outcomes in chronic diseases, including asthma. We have adapted a patient navigator intervention to address asthma in high risk communities as a practical, immediate, and sustainable method of achieving effective health literacy in patients low health literacy. [Completion/ Closing Date] 09/02/2010 [Link] link [Category] 
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