NURS FPX 4050 Assessment 1 Preliminary Care Coordination Plan NURS-FPX 4050 Coord Patient-Centered Care Preliminary Care Coordination Plan

Preliminary care is the basis of healthcare systems around the globe. It creates goals, recognizes resources, and tackles health-related matters, establishing the outline for an interdisciplinary approach to enhancing community well-being. A preliminary care coordination plan defines early strategies for cooperative healthcare initiatives (McKay et al., 2022).

This assessment aims to develop a preliminary care coordination plan focusing on health literacy. It will address psychosocial, physical, and cultural considerations related to health literacy. Additionally, specific objectives will be outlined to tackle health literacy challenges and enhance community well-being (Schubbe et al., 2020).

Health Literacy: A Significant Health Concern

Health literacy is gradually known as a significant community health concern. It is defined as the ability of patients to read, understand, and utilize health information for making healthcare decisions. Diminished health literacy has been linked to raised mortality rates among patients and a greater incidence of medication non-adherence (Rajah et al., 2019). Furthermore, limited health literacy contributes to increased healthcare expenses, partly attributed to increased hospitalizations, medication errors, and discriminating emergency department visits. The estimated global annual cost of limited health literacy to the healthcare system ranges from $106 to $238 billion (Rajah et al., 2019).

The issue of low health literacy extends globally. Roughly 21% of American adults face health illiteracy, with an additional 27% having borderline literacy skills. Despite this, many physicians need help recognizing the problem or more confidence to address it. Approximately one in ten individuals in Europe have inadequate health literacy (Kuyinu et al., 2020).

Physical considerations include poor health outcomes and difficulties managing chronic diseases caused by low health literacy. Psychosocially, it causes depression, anxiety, and emotional distress. Cultural values affect health literacy and influence the opinions of individuals. People with low health literacy need access to community resources such as patient education materials, health navigators, and health literacy programs (Kuyinu et al., 2020).

Best Practices for Health Improvement

The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes the crucial role of education for health impartiality globally. The best practices for health improvement include education, generic literacy skills, and enhanced information access. Instead of concentrating solely on improving individual skills through educational interventions, attention is directed toward simplifying communication and reducing healthcare system intricacies (Nutbeam & Lloyd, 2021). These skills include understanding health risks, social factors, and collective action, linking to individual and population benefits. Healthcare teams should regulate communication for lower health literacy levels, and community health education should emphasize task-based, goal-directed approaches (Nutbeam &Lloyd, 2021).

Evaluating health literacy improvements requires assessing specific skills and considering different communication methods, ensuring meaningful public engagement, media, and content (Stormacq et al., 2020). Interventions to enhance health literacy mainly target improving communication in healthcare settings, clearly addressing task-directed and functional health literacy and communication efficiency, including visual aids and technology, authorizing patient understanding. Enhanced health literacy skills among frontline healthcare professionals, programs in initial education, and continuing professional development have developed (Stormacq et al., 2020).

Assumptions and Points of Uncertainty

Poor literacy is linked to reduced responsiveness to traditional health education, lower utilization of disease prevention services, and challenges in managing chronic conditions. The efficiency of interventions includes a source of uncertainty in health literacy improvements in healthcare settings. One of the assumptions is that getting better at communicating will lead to better health results. The complexity of managing varying literacy levels, cultural factors, and the influence of digital communication give rise to uncertainties (McKay et al., 2022).

These evidence-based practices are presumed to elevate health literacy, fostering informed decision-making for timely healthcare interventions. This should ideally enhance health outcomes and mitigate complications stemming from ignorance (Nawabi et al., 2021). However, uncertainties emerge, questioning the effectiveness of educational material