ReviewJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Promoting health literacy.
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105 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of Health Literacy Interventions for People Living with HIV.AIDS and behavior · 2017Pooled it
- Health literacy screening instruments for eHealth applications: a systematic review.Journal of biomedical informatics · 2012Pooled it
- Health literacy and public health: a systematic review and integration of definitions and models.BMC public health · 2012Pooled it
- A systematic review of asthma and health literacy: a cultural-ethnic perspective in Canada.MedGenMed : Medscape general medicine · 2007Pooled it
- Design features of graphs in health risk communication: a systematic review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIAPooled it
- Guiding Oncology Patients Through the Maze of Precision Medicine.Journal of health communication · 2016Trial
- Development and validation of the assessment of health literacy in breast and cervical cancer screening.Journal of health communication · 2014Trial
- Health literacy and task environment influence parents' burden for data entry on child-specific health information: randomized controlled trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2011Trial
- Take Control of Your Blood Pressure (TCYB) study: a multifactorial tailored behavioral and educational intervention for achieving blood pressure control.Patient education and counseling · 2008Trial
- Living labs as catalysts for integrated primary care: insights from a comprehensive community survey and co-creative design of community-based prevention and primary care.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- A Dataset and Resources for Identifying Patient Health Literacy Information from Clinical Notes.ArXiv · 2026Article
- Usability and potential impact of a web-based literacy-oriented intervention for community-dwelling patients with complex care needs: a mixed methods case report.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2026Article
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- Readability of paediatric participant information leaflets in research studies.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- eHealth literacy and cancer screening attitudes among chronic patients.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Identification of Online Health Information Using Large Pretrained Language Models: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- The role of different health information sources in moderating the impact of health literacy on health-related quality of life: evidence from a population-based study in Korea.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- The hidden health equity crisis: readability assessment of online information regarding periodontitis-diabetes relationship.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Coherence and comprehensibility: Large language models predict lay understanding of health-related content.Journal of biomedical informatics · 2025Article
- Adolescent health literacy: sociodemographic determinants and its relationship with substance use avoidance.Health promotion international · 2024Article
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Abstract
This report reviews some of the extensive literature in health literacy, much of it focused on the intersection of low literacy and the understanding of basic health care information. Several articles describe methods for assessing health literacy as well as methods for assessing the readability of texts, although generally these latter have not been developed with health materials in mind. Other studies have looked more closely at the mismatch between patients' literacy levels and the readability of materials intended for use by those patients. A number of studies have investigated the phenomenon of literacy from the perspective of patients' interactions in the health care setting, the disenfranchisement of some patients because of their low literacy skills, the difficulty some patients have in navigating the health care system, the quality of the communication between doctors and their patients including the cultural overlay of such exchanges, and ultimately the effect of low literacy on health outcomes. Finally, the impact of new information technologies has been studied by a number of investigators. There remain many opportunities for conducting further research to gain a better understanding of the complex interactions between general literacy, health literacy, information technologies, and the existing health care infrastructure.
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