TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Health Literacy: An Update A1 - Rudd, Rima E. A1 - Groene, Oana R. A1 - Navarro, D. Maria A1 - Reid, Susan A2 - Boulton, Matthew L. A2 - Wallace, Robert B. PY - 2022 T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e AB - Literacy, the foundation of education, sheds light on the well-established pathway between education and health outcomes. However, literacy had not been a consideration in most health studies, programs, or practices in industrialized nations until recently because literacy concerns were generally associated with developing nations. In the early 1990s, findings from international surveys of adult literacy conducted in 22 industrialized nations indicated that literacy is problematic in these technologically sophisticated nations with consequences for the economy, daily life, and civic engagement.1 These findings inspired health researchers to examine the influence of literacy on health outcomes. Within the first decade of research, links between the literacy skills of patients and their health outcomes were firmly established.2 As a result, health literacy emerged as a new variable for health studies—offering insight into health outcomes and health disparities and generating interest among health researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182685079 ER -