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...
Kutner, M. A., & United States. Dept. of Education & National Center for Education Statistics. (2006).The health literacy of America’s adults: Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy. Washington, DC: United States Department of Education; National Center for Education Stati...
For example, the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALLS) (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2009) provides a statistical snapshot of the performance and abilities of the adult population in relation to a reading-based test of literacy, numeracy, and problem solving. Despite providing limited ...
During the course of treatment, we identified multiple gaps in health literacy that prevented Mrs. K from receiving the best level of care and tried our best to bridge them. Improving this would help her ability to manage her symptoms outside the hospital and spend as much time at...
10.1080/10810730.2014.954083 Advancing Health Literacy Measurement: A Pathway to Better Health and Health System Performance ANDREW PLEASANT Canyon Ranch Institute, Tucson, Arizona, USA The concept of health literacy initially emerged and continues to gain strength as an approach to improving health status...
Little is known about the impacts of health literacy and English proficiency on the health status of Somali refugees. Data came from interviews in 2009R
The health literacy of America’s adults: results from the 2003 National Assessment of adult literacy. Washington: National Center for education. Statistics. 2006;39(10):685–87. Hongwen Y, Qi S, Yinghua L. Present situation and countermeasure of health literacy of urban and rural residents in...
In addition, or alongside the research agenda described above, health literacy might provide an ideal vehicle in which to examine other research topics of interest, for example the relatively poor health statistics (eg, life expectancy, maternal mortality rate) in the US compared to other wealthy ...
Within the digital society, the limited proficiency in digital health behaviors among rural residents has emerged as a significant factor intensifying health disparities between urban and rural areas. Addressing this issue, enhancing the digital literacy
The Internet may pose a formidable communication channel for helping advance health literacy in the United States. During the past decade, the Internet has become an important medium in terms of population health, with its strengths well documented, including availability of a wide range of informat...