Limited literacy is a health hazard. That’s the message that a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher and a local nurse brought Wednesday to an open house of the Literacy Network, a Madison agency that trains volunteers to help adults learn to read.
Mike Grasmick of the UW Department of Family Medicine worked with UW physician Paul Smith this spring to gain insights from six focus groups, two each in Madison, Racine and Oshkosh, on how well patients understood medical information.