Sharon Kleyne Hour

Many patients worldwide suffer from adverse health outcomes each year because of barriers to medication adherence. The national burden of poor medication adherence is, in part, due to low literacy and reading skills and, more specifically, low health literacy. Poor health literacy is most pronounced among patients with lower socioeconomic status and those with chronic medical conditions. Dr. Subramaniam, a pharmacist, and Arthur will discuss the current crisis and explore strategies to improve health literacy and hence medication adherence by patients.