The meaning and the measure of health literacy

By David W. Baker. Journal of general internal medicine, 2006

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, General Health Professions

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1. Ellen Peters
2. Tricia A. Miller
3. N. Berkman
4. Mirta Galesic
5. Sandra J. Huston

In General Health Professions

1. Ellen Peters
2. Blair Kidwell
3. Michael S. Wolf
4. Tricia A. Miller
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6. N. Berkman
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Citations in the corpus

• Health Literacy and Adherence to Medical Treatment in Chronic and Acute Illness: A Meta-Analysis (2016, background): “1 Health literacy and Adherence Relationship Current research suggests that improving patients’ health literacy can be used as an effective education and prevention tool to improve disease management behaviors, including treatment adherence [9, 10, 11].”
• Health Literacy: What Is It? (2010, background): “In 2006, David Baker offered a perspective about the meaning and the measure of health literacy (Baker, 2006 ).”
• Measuring Financial Literacy (2010, positive): “This idea of literacy has been expanded to the study of particular skill sets, for example computer literacy (Wecker, Kohnle, and Fischer 2007), statistical literacy (Callingham and Watson 2005) and health literacy (Baker 2006).”
• Low Health Literacy and Health Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review (2011, background): “These skills include the ability to read and understand text and to locate and interpret information in documents (print literacy); use quantitative information for tasks, such as interpreting food labels, measuring blood glucose levels, and adhering to medication regimens (numeracy); and speak and ”
• The Relationship Between Health, Education, and Health Literacy: Results From the Dutch Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (2013, background): “Health literacy also encompasses oral literacy, which seems to be an underexplored domain so far (Baker, 2006; Nielsen-Bohlman et al., 2004) or, even more broadly, it can be considered “a package of competencies for health” (Wang et al.”
• Health literacy and public health: A systematic review and integration of definitions and models (2012, background): “Baker DW: The meaning and the measure of health literacy.”
• Development of the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT): a new measure of understandability and actionability for print and audiovisual patient information. (2014, background): “While the skills of individuals are an important part of health literacy, the field has come to recognize that the demands placed on individuals by the health system and professionals are an important determinant [5–9].”
• Promoting positive change: Advancing the food well-being paradigm☆ (2013, background): “Another relevant factor is health literacy, which focuses on an individual's ability to understand and communicate health information (Baker, 2006).”
• How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making. (2009, neutral): “As defined by Baker (2006), health literacy is an ordered skill set underlying the ability to understand written health information and to communicate orally about health.”
• Presenting quantitative information about decision outcomes: a risk communication primer for patient decision aid developers (2013, background): “, objective numeracy [121,134,126,135,136]; subjective numeracy [137]; graph literacy [61]; other aspects of the health literacy [138,139].”