Readability of online health information: implications for health literacy

By Nicholas Mcinnes, Bo J. A. Haglund. Informatics for Health and Social Care, 2011

296 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, General Health Professions

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5840c5eb834064edbbfaab5efc556a42ab3b7754

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In General Health Professions

1. A. Burke
2. Tessa Rohrberg
3. J. Reyes
4. Amy K. Chesser

Citations in the corpus

• New technologies, new disparities: the intersection of electronic health and digital health literacy (2019, unknown): “[14 , 15] Medical terminology and jargon, difficult formatting, dense paragraphs, and specialized language similarly persist as barriers for those with limited health literacy.”
• Navigating the digital divide: A systematic review of eHealth literacy in underserved populations in the United States (2016, background): “Even when quality information is provided, misunderstandings associated with low readability may occur (12).”