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Health literacy and health communication [PDF]

BioPsychoSocial Medicine, 2010
Health communication consists of interpersonal or mass communication activities focused on improving the health of individuals and populations. Skills in understanding and applying information about health issues are critical to this process and may have a substantial impact on health behaviors and health outcomes.
Takahiro Kiuchi, Hirono Ishikawa
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Health Literacy

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
AbstractHealth literacy has been defined as access to health services of individuals, understand and use health information systems, interpret health-related issue and make right decision. In recent years, the importance of health literacy has been rising from studies with positive results in worldwide.
İlgün, Gülnur, Turaç, İlkay Sevinç, Orak, Sevilay   +2 more
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Assessing the Comprehensive Training Needs of Informal Caregivers of Cancer Patients: A Qualitative Study

Current Oncology, 2023
Introduction: The increasing demand for cancer services is projected to overwhelm the cancer care system, leading to a potential shortfall in human resource capacity.
Janet Papadakos, Mohamed Ugas, Naa Kwarley Quartey, Christine (Tina) Papadakos, Meredith Elana Giuliani   +4 more
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Predictors of English Health Literacy among U.S. Hispanic Immigrants: The importance of language, bilingualism and sociolinguistic environment [PDF]

, 2016
In the United States, data confirm that Spanish-speaking immigrants are particularly affected by the negative health outcomes associated with low health literacy.
Hund, Lauren, Jacobson, Holly E., Soto Mas, Francisco   +2 more
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Health Literacy in Context [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018
Health literacy has been defined and conceptualized in multiple ways, but almost all definitions have similar core elements describing the personal skills that enable individuals to obtain, understand, and use information to make decisions and take actions that will have an impact on their health. [...]
Don Nutbeam, Diane Levin-Zamir, Gill Rowlands   +2 more
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Institutional improvements in readability of written informed consent forms sustained post-revised Common Rule

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2021
Obtaining informed consent is a fundamental and ethical practice within human subjects’ research. Informed consent forms (ICFs) include a large amount of information, much of which may be unfamiliar to research subjects, and the revised Common Rule ...
Alison Caballero, Katherine J. Leath, Jennifer M. Gan   +2 more
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Health literacy, health status, and healthcare utilization of Taiwanese adults: results from a national survey [PDF]

, 2010
Background Low health literacy is considered a worldwide health threat. The purpose of this study is to assess the prevalence and socio-demographic covariates of low health literacy in Taiwanese adults and to investigate the relationships between health ...
A Jovic-Veanes, AM Arozullah, BD Weiss, C von Wagner, CR Seldon, CSDH, CY Liu, D Nutbeam, Department of Statistics, DH Howard, DW Baker, DW Baker, DW Baker, ES Rogers, JA Gazmararian, JA Gazmararian, K Davis, Ken N Kuo, L Nielsen-Bohlman, M Kutner, MS Wolf, MS Wolf, NS Parikh, RL Sudore, RM Parker, Shoou-Yih D Lee, ST Lindau, ST Lindau, T Tokuda, TC Davis, TL Scott, Tzu-I Tsai, Y Tokuda, YI Cho, Yi-Wen Tsai   +34 more
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Differences in health literacy domains among migrants and their descendants in Germany

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundHealth literacy (HL) is considered to be an important precondition for health. HL research often identifies migrants as vulnerable for low HL.
Eva-Maria Berens, Julia Klinger, Julia Klinger, Sarah Carol, Doris Schaeffer   +4 more
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Health literacy as a mediator of the relationship between socioeconomic status and health: A cross-sectional study in a population-based sample in Florence.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundHealth literacy(HL) has recently been proposed as a potential mediator in the pathway through which socio-economic status(SES) affects health. However, empirical research investigating the contribution of HL in this relationship remains scarce.
Vieri Lastrucci, Chiara Lorini, Saverio Caini, Florence Health Literacy Research Group, Guglielmo Bonaccorsi   +4 more
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Health literacy and disparities in COVID-19–related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours in Australia

Public Health Research & Practice, 2020
Objectives: To explore the variation in understanding of, attitudes towards, and uptake of, health advice on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during the 2020 pandemic stage 3 restrictions (‘lockdown’) by health literacy in the Australian population.
Kirsten J McCaffery, Rachael H Dodd , Erin Cvejic , Julie Ayre, Carys Batcup , Jennifer MJ Isautier, Tessa Copp, Carissa Bonner, Kristen Pickles, Brooke Nickel, Thomas Dakin, Samuel Cornell, Michael S Wolf   +12 more
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