AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Many Texas healthcare shoppers discover it difficult to grasp well being info, from medical varieties and terminology to the influence of a illness prognosis. A latest research discovered that 88% of Individuals battle at one time or one other with what’s referred to as well being literacy1. Well being Literacy Month is in October and, as a result of low numbers of well being literacy throughout the nation – together with in Texas – Superior HealthPlan is taking time to assist its staff and most people discover ways to higher entry, perceive and use well being info and companies.
Well being literacy is how properly an individual is ready to receive, talk, course of and perceive well being info and companies to make their finest well being choices. Having the ability to act on well being data can enhance the well being of people in addition to their communities. For instance, individuals with larger ranges of well being literacy usually tend to fee their well being pretty much as good, superb or wonderful. Because the COVID-19 pandemic continues, discussions of well being disparities, equivalent to literacy, have turn into much more pressing.
“We all know that low well being literacy can result in poor well being,” stated Dr. David Harmon, Chief Medical Director at Superior. “As a number one managed care group in Texas, we additionally know that healthcare might be sophisticated. That is why Superior is dedicated to supporting our staff and our members – in addition to their associates, household and neighbors – to raised perceive and use well being info.”
To assist, Superior has established a health library full of assets equivalent to well being books for youngsters, teenagers and adults, in addition to an alphabetized listing of well being matters. Members additionally get entry to a Doctor Appointment Checklist, Managed Care Terms and Definitions in addition to Helpful Forms and Links, all discovered on Superior’s web site. Equally, Superior educates members by way of quarterly newsletters in addition to articles that cowl a variety of well being matters and preventative care.
For suppliers, Superior goals to teach by way of health literacy and cultural competency trainings, giving them the instruments to raised assist their sufferers.
Superior HealthPlan encourages members to succeed in out and make the most of native assets for schooling help and applications that may assist them enhance their lives. Members who’ve questions on their care or are in want of steerage can go to www.superiorhealthplan.com or name Superior at 1-800-783-5386.
About Superior HealthPlan
Based in 1999, Superior HealthPlan is a managed care firm that delivers high quality well being care all through Texas. Dedicated to reworking the well being of the neighborhood, one particular person at a time, Superior helps lively native involvement in all 254 Texas counties with greater than four,000 staff in 9 workplaces all through the state. Superior is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centene Company, a number one multi-national healthcare enterprise providing each core Medicaid and specialty companies. Extra info on Superior might be discovered at www.SuperiorHealthPlan.com.
1Group for Financial Cooperation and Growth (OECD):
https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/.
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