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Health Literacy
Health literacy is the ability to understand health information and to use that information to make good decisions about your health and medical care. Health information can overwhelm even people with advanced literacy skills. About one third of the adult population in the United States has limited health literacy.
Limited health literacy can affect your ability to
- Fill out complex forms
- Locate providers and services
- Share personal information such as health history
- Take care of yourself
- Manage a chronic disease
- Understand how to take medicines
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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- Health Literacy Basics(Dept. of Health and Human Services)
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Overviews
- Health Literacy and Health Outcomes(Dept. of Health and Human Services)
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Specific Conditions
- Deciphering Medspeak: Medspeak Terms(Medical Library Association)
- Deciphering Medspeak: Rx Riddles Solved(Medical Library Association)
- Understanding Medical Terms(Merck & Co., Inc.)
- Understanding the Language of Medicine(InteliHealth, Harvard Medical School)
- What Your Doctor Is Saying(InteliHealth, Harvard Medical School)
- Words to Watch(National Patient Safety Foundation)
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Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice(National Institutes of Health)
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Research
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Why Johnny Is Sick: Researcher Strengthens Health, Literacy Link
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Why Johnny Is Sick: Researcher Strengthens Health, Literacy Link
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Journal Articles
References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
- Article: Improving informed consent of surgical patients using a multimedia-based program?...
- Article: Health literacy: a pediatric nursing concern.
- Article: The relationship between patient education and glycaemic control in a...
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Statistics
- Statistics at a Glance(National Patient Safety Foundation)
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Children
- What Kids Say about: Their Health(Nemours Foundation)
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Date last updated: 20 July 2008 Topic last reviewed: 20 July 2008 |