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Health Literacy and Health Policy
Academic Pediatrics, 2012From the Departments of Pediatrics, Clinical Nursing, and the Center for Community Health, University of Rochester Medical Center (Dr Shone), Rochester, NY Address correspondence to Laura P. Shone, DrPH, MSW, Departments of Pediatrics, Clinical Nursing, and the Center for Community Health, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box
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Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, 2002
Illiteracy has become an increasingly important problem, especially as it relates to health care. A national survey found that almost half of the adult population has deficiencies in reading or computation skills. Literacy is defined as the basic ability to read and speak English, whereas functional health literacy is the ability to read, understand ...
Miranda R, Andrus, Mary T, Roth
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Illiteracy has become an increasingly important problem, especially as it relates to health care. A national survey found that almost half of the adult population has deficiencies in reading or computation skills. Literacy is defined as the basic ability to read and speak English, whereas functional health literacy is the ability to read, understand ...
Miranda R, Andrus, Mary T, Roth
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2007
Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe, Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe. Vol. 4: Health promotion and disease prevention: A Handbook for Teachers, Researchers, Health Professionals and Decision ...
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Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe, Programmes for Training on Research in Public Health for South Eastern Europe. Vol. 4: Health promotion and disease prevention: A Handbook for Teachers, Researchers, Health Professionals and Decision ...
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Current Opinion in Ophthalmology, 2013
This review discusses the concept and measurement of health literacy, with a focus on the care of patients with glaucoma.Nearly one-fourth of adults in the USA lack the skills needed to fully comprehend and act on verbal or written information in the healthcare environment.
Kelly W, Muir +2 more
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This review discusses the concept and measurement of health literacy, with a focus on the care of patients with glaucoma.Nearly one-fourth of adults in the USA lack the skills needed to fully comprehend and act on verbal or written information in the healthcare environment.
Kelly W, Muir +2 more
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Health Literacy/Gesundheitskompetenz
2018Leitbegriffe der Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention. Glossar zu Konzepten, Strategien und Methoden.
Abel, Thomas +3 more
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American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2008
The U.S. National Literacy Act of 1991 defines literacy as “an individual’s ability to read, write, and speak English and compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job and in society, to achieve one’s goals and to develop one’s knowledge and ...
Victoria L, Tkacz +2 more
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The U.S. National Literacy Act of 1991 defines literacy as “an individual’s ability to read, write, and speak English and compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job and in society, to achieve one’s goals and to develop one’s knowledge and ...
Victoria L, Tkacz +2 more
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The American Journal of Bioethics, 2007
Volandes and Paasche-Orlow (2007) cite convincing evidence that the lack of healthcare literacy leads to inequalities in healthcare access and healthcare outcomes.
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Volandes and Paasche-Orlow (2007) cite convincing evidence that the lack of healthcare literacy leads to inequalities in healthcare access and healthcare outcomes.
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Epidemiology, 2002
Sometimes when a science notices a conceptual inadequacy in its discourse, the problem is not the rigor of its categories but the categories them? selves. When epidemiologists as much as say that they are embarrassed by the limitations of a long-employed concept such as race,1,2 this may be a hint that something more is needed than a better ...
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Sometimes when a science notices a conceptual inadequacy in its discourse, the problem is not the rigor of its categories but the categories them? selves. When epidemiologists as much as say that they are embarrassed by the limitations of a long-employed concept such as race,1,2 this may be a hint that something more is needed than a better ...
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Information Literacy, Health Literacy, Health Information Literacy-What are they about?
Library Herald, 2013Presents chronological development of the concept and its seven components, along with information skill model and the standard. On this topic there are exclusive books, journals, websites, projects, reports, training materials, conferences and guides.
Sangeeta Narang, B K Sen, Archana Shukla
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Measuring health literacy – the Swedish Functional Health Literacy scale
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2014BackgroundThe benefits of health promotion efforts vary due to a complexity of reasons. One possible reason for an absence of effects is the level of functional health literacy among the individuals that participate in the interventions. Thus, valid and reliable instruments that capture these kinds of skills are needed.
Josefin M, Wångdahl +1 more
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