The prevalence of limited health literacy

By M. Paasche-Orlow, Ruth Parker, J. Gazmararian, L. Nielsen-Bohlman, R. Rudd. Journal of general internal medicine, 2005

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Literature and Literary Theory

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Citations in the corpus

• Measuring health literacy in populations: illuminating the design and development process of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q) (2013, neutral): “The concept has gained increasing attention both in research and practice due to its close association to the social determinants of health [2], health behavior and health outcomes [3], health service use [4] and quality of health systems as well as capacity building for professionals [5].”
• Understanding and Responding to Health Literacy as a Social Determinant of Health. (2020, background): “Their review drew on 16 papers and built on earlier reviews by Paasche-Orlow (49) and Mantwill (32).”
• The Single Item Literacy Screener: Evaluation of a brief instrument to identify limited reading ability (2006, result): “Our finding of 17% prevalence of limited reading ability in an older population with chronic disease is lower than a recent pooled analyses of prevalence studies [22] which reveal a weighted prevalence of low reading ability of 26% (95% confidence interval [CI] 22–29%) and of marginal reading abilit”
• Health literacy and public health: A systematic review and integration of definitions and models (2012, background): “looking at the role of health educators in promoting health literacy [15]; public health literacy for lawyers [16], health communication [17], the prevalence of limited health literacy [18], and health literacy as an empowerment tool for low-income mothers [19].”
• Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents (2009, background): “Fully 36% of American adults have limited health literacy skills, with even greater prevalence among patients with chronic diseases, those who are older, and those who have lower levels of education [25].”