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 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. ...
2014). Examples of search terms include “health insurance literacy,”“health insurance,”“health plan,”“Medicare,”“knowledge,”“understand*,” or “instrument” (a full list of search terms and PRESS derived search strings used can be found on Online Resource 1). The following databases...
In 2003 The United States Department of Education completed the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) and for the first and only time, so far, it also included items to measure the Health literacy level of adults in the U.S. This assessment intended to measure the capacity of adult ...
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...
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...
Although more and more attention has been given to the relationship between literacy and health in recent years, scholarly work that uses national surveys to quantify the effect of literacy on health is rare. Using data from the 2003 U.S. National Assessment of Adult Literacy, the most recent...
The keywords for the search were “oral health literacy” or “health literacy of dentistry” and “elderly” or “older adult.” The examples of the search strategy used in Web of Science were as follows: “(((TS=(oral health literacy)) OR TS=(health literacy of dentistry)) AND...
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...