... to have worse disease understanding and greater disease progression than patients with adequate health literacy, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/ ...
... to have worse disease understanding and greater disease progression than patients with adequate health literacy, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/ ...
... Eliseo J. Perez-Stable, MD, and Chi-yuan Hsu, MD, measured the health ... researchers found that roughly one-third of patients had inadequate health literacy. Approximately three-quarters of the patients ...
... very important to consider when writing health stories," Hinnant said. "Increasing knowledge of health literacy could help journalists clarify medical information to readers."
Of the journalists ...
... access to understandable health information. According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, only 12 percent of adults have proficient health literacy - skills needed to manage their health...
... in the advanced online edition of the journal Social Indicators Research suggests a link between the ease with which older adults can access and understand health information and their happiness...
... non-research audiences, including Public Health—Seattle & King County. Her training ... Medical Association and federal government have also focused on health literacy. Many plain language resources aimed ...
... — those with limited English proficiency and those with disabilities — experience significantly lower health literacy than the general population. "There is already a problem with low health literacy ...
... to the Institute of Medicine, more than 90 million Americans suffer from low health literacy, a mismatch between patients' abilities to understand health care information and providers' abilities to ...
... at Washington University. The center received an $8.6 million grant, which funds research to improve health communication and health literacy among at-risk populations. A large portion ...
... fewer financial resources, less access to health insurance or stable employment, and less health literacy. As a result, while the death rate among the most educated Americans is dropping dramatically, ...
... towards the SCR in three pilot areas. Focusing particularly on people with low health literacy, potentially stigmatising conditions, or those with difficulty accessing healthcare, they carried out ...
... self-efficacy," writes Dr. Gerber. "As recently reported, education is strongly associated with health literacy, which in turn affects one's ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health ...
... . Weak collaboration with health-care providers, along with cognitive problems and lower health literacy, are viewed as contributors.
Psychologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
... their health care, Mayer said. She references health literacy initiatives, public reporting of quality indicators and consumer-directed health care. While these approaches aim to get patients ...
