Low health literacy and health outcomes: an updated systematic review

ND Berkman, SL Sheridan, KE Donahue… - Annals of internal …, 2011 - acpjournals.org
Background: Approximately 80 million Americans have limited health literacy, which puts
them at greater risk for poorer access to care and poorer health outcomes. Purpose: To …

Designing visual aids that promote risk literacy: A systematic review of health research and evidence-based design heuristics

R Garcia-Retamero, ET Cokely - Human factors, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Effective risk communication is essential for informed decision making.
Unfortunately, many people struggle to understand typical risk communications because …

Health literacy and access to care

H Levy, A Janke - Journal of health communication, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Despite well-documented links between low health literacy, low rates of health insurance
coverage, and poor health outcomes, there has been almost no research on the relationship …

Health literacy and health actions: a review and a framework from health psychology

C Von Wagner, A Steptoe, MS Wolf… - Health Education & …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
The association between performance on health literacy measures and health outcomes is
well established. The next step is to understand the processes through which health literacy …

Health literacy and women's reproductive health: a systematic review

KA Kilfoyle, M Vitko, R O'Conor… - Journal of women's …, 2016 - liebertpub.com
Background: Health literacy is thought to impact women's reproductive health, yet no
comprehensive systematic reviews have been conducted on the topic. Our objective was to …

Association between health literacy, ehealth literacy, and health outcomes among patients with long-term conditions

E Neter, E Brainin - European Psychologist, 2019 - econtent.hogrefe.com
The objective of this paper is to synthesize and update findings from systematic review on
health literacy and health outcomes among patients with long-term conditions, and extend …

Health literacy, health status, and healthcare utilization of Taiwanese adults: results from a national survey

SYD Lee, TI Tsai, YW Tsai, KN Kuo - BMC public health, 2010 - Springer
Background Low health literacy is considered a worldwide health threat. The purpose of this
study is to assess the prevalence and socio-demographic covariates of low health literacy in …

Short assessment of health literacy—Spanish and English: a comparable test of health literacy for Spanish and English speakers

SYD Lee, BD Stucky, JY Lee, RG Rozier… - Health services …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. The intent of the study was to develop and validate a comparable health literacy
test for Spanish‐speaking and English‐speaking populations. Study Design. The design of …

Will Pay-For-Performance And Quality Reporting Affect Health Care Disparities? These rapidly proliferating programs do not appear to be devoting much attention to …

LP Casalino, A Elster, A Eisenberg, E Lewis… - Health …, 2007 - healthaffairs.org
Pay-for-performance (P4P) and public quality-reporting programs can increase the quality of
health care for the services being measured. However, unless carefully designed, these …

Health literacy: the missing link in improving the health of Somali immigrant women in Oslo

AA Gele, KS Pettersen, LE Torheim, B Kumar - BMC Public Health, 2016 - Springer
Background Existing studies report a positive association between inadequate health
literacy and immigrant's adverse health outcomes. Despite substantial research on this topic …