Health Literacy and Cancer Communication

By T. Davis, M. V. Williams, E. Marin, Ruth Parker, Jonathan Glass. Ca, 2002

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Health literacy is increasingly recognized as a critical factor affecting communication across the continuum of cancer care. We reviewed research on health literacy and examined its impact on cancer outcomes and communication.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Oncology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/456f44c382b8d07d4f06dc4f352c16b1085c664d

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Citations in the corpus

• Readability of online health information: implications for health literacy (2011, background): “LHL is correlated with a lower quality of life and higher mortality, due to the combined effects of a lack of awareness of the nature, prevention and management of illness and a lack of understanding of how the health system works [24,25].”