Please check the following article in the American Journal of Health
Behavior, Volume 3, issue 3:  
" Relationship of Preventive Health Practices and Health Literacy: A
National Study" By Sheida White, PhD; Jing Chen, PhD and Ruth Atchison, 
At: http://www.atypon-link.com/PNG/toc/ajhb/32/3.  The PDF is avialable
at:
http://www.atypon-link.com/PNG/doi/pdf/10.5555/ajhb.2008.32.3.227
 
Jaleh Behroozi Soroui
   

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[mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Joan Medlen
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 5:30 PM
To: The Health and Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1834] Re: Health Literacy Definitions

At 10:25 AM 3/7/2008, you wrote:

>but also being

>able to evaluate that information.


Very nice. Thank you for that reminder. I will need to work on how to 
include that. Very important!  (Almost as important as catching typos 
before sending e-mails...)

Joan

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Joan E Guthrie Medlen, R.D., L.D.
Clinical Advisor, Health Literacy & Communications
Special Olympics Healthy Athletes
joan at DownSyndromeNutrition.com
503.246.3849



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