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MEDEXPLAIN HEALTH INC

Cause Area

  • Education & Literacy
  • Health & Medicine
  • Race & Ethnicity
  • Seniors
  • Women

Location

7 TEAK CTRINGWOOD, NJ 07456 United States

Organization Information

Mission Statement

MedExplain Health promotes health equity by providing access to engaging, evidence-based, unbiased, and easily understood health information, allowing patients to be more active participants in their health care, reducing negative outcomes and disparities in care.

Description

We produce educational content in the form of articles, graphics, and videos designed to be trustworthy, easy to understand, and engaging by incorporating key aspects of adult learning theory. Content is uniquely designed to engage marginalized communities and those with low health literacy who suffer a disproportionate burden from chronic disease.

To date, our educational methodology has been used in over a dozen research projects demonstrating its superiority to more conventional patient education and its potential to improve outcomes. While conventional belief in the medical community is that patient education alone is not enough to influence outcomes, research using the our content has shown that its approach to education changes patient behavior. Since adherence to medical recommendations is especially challenging in low-income and marginalized communities, modalities that have the potential to change patient behavior stand to make a significant impact on disparities in health outcomes.

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