ILLUSTRATING HEALTH NARRATIVES: AN EXPLORATION OF GRAPHIC MEDICINE'S AS CONSUMER HEALTH EDUCATION MATERIALS

<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-bottom: 24.0pt;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Health literacy and patient education aims to meet consumers where they are while also increasing knowledge, application of information, and ability to advocate. Graphic medicine is a subgenre made up of mostly books and are narratives about health experiences. This study aims to examine the usability of Graphic Medicine as it relates to women&rsquo;s health for consumer patient education materials. Digital and print mediums in both longform and shortform were selected for review. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality&rsquo;s Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) was used as the instrument to determine if the readings perform well or not as consumer health information. All items have been defined as graphic medicine by GraphicMedicine.org which is operated by a nonprofit organization, Graphic Medicine International Collective.</span>