The article focuses on a report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality which revealed that 12 percent of adults in the U.S. have proficient health literacy, particularly the skills to manage their own healt...
Low health literacy rates pose a significant problem for population health. In the United States, levels are low, with nearly half of American adults having only basic health literacy in 2012 (Champlin & Mackert, 2015) and 20% of Medicare patients having low health literacy and 29% marginal ...
Advancing Health Literacy addresses the crisis in health literacy in the United States and around the world. This book thoroughly examines the critical role of literacy in public health and outlines a practical, effective model that bridges the gaps between healt... C Zarcadoolas,AF Pleasant,DS ...
• Increase the use of preventative care • Improve health outcomes • Reduce unnecessary emergency department visits One component of health literacy includes understanding how to communicate, listen and speak. Mrs. K and her elderly husband moved to the United States from Afghanistan ...
13–16 Although the data are not nearly as robust for immigrant groups, there is every reason to believe that immigrants have higher rates of low health literacy than do US-born people. The impact on immigrants is likely greater as they often have fewer ways to access health information. ...
Financial illiteracy was particularly prevalent among individuals with incomes between 100–400% of the Federal Poverty Line, many of whom will be eligible for subsidies. In this group, the young, less educated, females, and those with less income were more likely to have low financial literacy....
The Institute of Medicine's landmark 2004 report Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion emphasized that health literacy op- erates within the "health concept," recognized as the broad social fabric in which institutional, public, and private health occurs.1 Over the course of the past...
Diabetes Rates on the Decline: the Good News and the Bad While general diabetes incidence is declining in the US, several populations aren’t seeing the same progress. Blog September 5, 2019 Apple Health Records Integrates with Allscripts EHR Suites In the age of wearables and smartphones, mo...
Using a person-centered approach, the current study aimed to identify mental health profiles in two cross-sectional samples of Finnish adolescents before and after the peak of the pandemic, and to examine how socio-demographic and psychosocial factors, academic expectations, health literacy, and self...