Health literacy can affect one's ability to understand medical terminology and make informed medical decisions. Look into the definition of health literacy and explore its importance, how to take an assessment, and how to improve health literacy. ...
Thus it is concluded that principled relexicalisation may be one way of improving the applicability of standardised health literacy tests to local populations and settings. However, the limitations of standardised tests may prove to be a significant barrier overshadowing the value of relexicalisation....
health literacymedical educationpatient‐centred careHealth literacy (HL) has been widely referenced as a determinant of health outcomes, making the assessment of low HL a fundamental step to plan educational interventions. This study aimed to translate and adapt the Short Assessment of Health Literacy...
Health Literacy, Self-Efficacy, and Patients' Assessment of Medical Disclosure and Consent Documentation Health Commun 27(6):581–590Donovan-Kicken E, Mackert M, Guinn TD, Tollison AC, Breckinridge B, Pont SJ. Health literacy, self- efficacy, and patients' assessment of medical disclosure and ...
By contrast, some measures have expanded the scope of medical care-related literacy; they include the following: the Health Activity Literacy Scale; the Demographic Assessment of Health Literacy; the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy; the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey; and the Healt...
They catalog a number of examples of situations where some sort of communal health literacy has a substantial impact on health actions and outcomes. More recent of authors have continued to investigate this phenomenon and to propose methods for assessing, engaging with, and improving community health...
Objectives: The purpose of this study is to develop a Korean Health Literacy Assessment Tool (KHLAT) and to encourage researchers in the public health education field to look at the concept of health literacy as one of the possible strategies to design and develop more effective health education...
Based on the Flesch Reading Ease assessment, only 3% of epilepsy.com web pages are written for a 6th grade reading level or below. If 8th grade level or below is used as the standard, only 15% are adequate. Recommendations and examples are provided for improving the readability of epilepsy...
To assess the health literacy and numeracy skills of Spanish-speaking parents of young children and to validate a new Spanish language health literacy assessment for parents, the Spanish Parental Health Literacy Activities Test (PHLAT Spanish). Cross-sectional study of Spanish-speaking caregivers of yo...
there is no clear “consensus” on HL measurement but a convergence to more comprehensive tools. Giving attention to this finding can help to offer direction towards the development of comparable and reliable health literacy assessment tools that effectively respond to the informational needs of populat...