RT Book, Section
A1 Rudd, Rima E.
A1 Groene, Oana R.
A1 Navarro, D. Maria
A1 Reid, Susan
A2 Boulton, Matthew L.
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182685079
T1 Health Literacy: An Update
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644511
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182685079
RD 2024/04/24
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.