Financial Health Literacy and the Shared Decision-Making Process in Healthcare
1. Patient-Centered Care
2. Shared Decision Making and Patient Engagement
3. What Is Financial Health Literacy?
4. Improving Financial Health Literacy
5. Advancing Your Patient-Centered Care
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Patient-Centered Care Key Component | Specific Skills |
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Share power and responsibility with patients and caregivers. |
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Communicate with patients in a shared and fully open manner. |
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Consider patients’ individuality, emotional needs, values, and life issues. |
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Advocate and reach patient, caretakers, and other social support systems in the community |
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Enhance prevention and health promotion |
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Gain a better understanding of their health and health conditions |
Decision making recognition with informed options |
Understanding of pros and cons |
Obtain tools needed to evaluate their options |
Preparation for talking with healthcare providers |
Collaboration opportunities with their healthcare team |
Higher likelihood of following through on their decisions |
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O’Mara, C.S.; Young, J.P.; Winkelmann, Z.K. Financial Health Literacy and the Shared Decision-Making Process in Healthcare. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 6510. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116510
O’Mara CS, Young JP, Winkelmann ZK. Financial Health Literacy and the Shared Decision-Making Process in Healthcare. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(11):6510. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116510
Chicago/Turabian StyleO’Mara, Caitlin S., Justin P. Young, and Zachary K. Winkelmann. 2022. "Financial Health Literacy and the Shared Decision-Making Process in Healthcare" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 11: 6510. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116510