Facilitating Health Communication with Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Populations Through the Use of Health Literacy and Community Engagement Strategies

The increasingly diverse ethnic composition of the United States population has created a profound and ongoing demographic shift, and public health and health care organizations face many challenges as they move to address and adapt to this change. To better understand how the public health and health care communities can meet the challenges of serving an increasingly diverse population, the Roundtable on Health Literacy conducted a public workshop on facilitating health communication with immigrant, refugee, and migrant populations through the use of health literate approaches. The goal of the workshop was to identify approaches that will enable organizations that serve these ethnically and culturally diverse populations in a manner that allows all members of these communities to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and the services needed to make appropriate health and personal decisions. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop. Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Introduction 2 Issues and Challenges in Facilitating Health Communication with Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Populations 3 Accessing and Using Health Care Services 4 Health Literacy Considerations for Outreach 5 Application of Health Literacy to Communication with Immigrants, Refugees, and Migrants 6 Where Do We Go from Here? References Appendix A: Workshop Agenda Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Moderators, Speakers, and Panelists