In collaboration with Dr. Gluch at the Penn Dental Community Oral Health Division, the Levy Library of Dental Medicine is hosting the Health Literacy Study Club, where we will read and discuss foundational and emerging research and best practices about health literacy and patient education.
Allie Schroeder is a DMD-MPH student at Penn who is applying her passion for oral health literacy to researching the impact of dentist-patient communication on the quality of dental care. She facilitated this virtual discussion on the following article on Monday, September 18th, 2023:Tseng W, Pleasants E, Ivey SL, Sokal-Gutierrez K, Kumar J, Hoeft KS, Horowitz AM, Ramos-Gomez F, Sodhi M, Liu J, Neuhauser L. Barriers and Facilitators to Promoting Oral Health Literacy and Patient Communication among Dental Providers in California. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Dec 30;18(1):216. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18010216. PMID: 33396682; PMCID: PMC7795206.