ReviewJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Rethinking health numeracy: a multidisciplinary literature review.
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101 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 274 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Strategies to optimize comprehension of numerical medication instructions: A systematic review and concept map.Patient education and counseling · 2022Pooled it
- Imprecision and Preferences in Interpretation of Verbal Probabilities in Health: a Systematic Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Printed educational materials: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Printed educational materials: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- An effective COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy intervention focused on the relative risks of vaccination and infection.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Association between health literacy and self-care behaviors among patients with chronic kidney disease.BMC nephrology · 2018Trial
- Talking health, a pragmatic randomized-controlled health literacy trial targeting sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among adults: rationale, design & methods.Contemporary clinical trials · 2014Trial
- How to reduce the effect of framing on messages about health.Journal of general internal medicine · 2010Trial
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- AI-assisted decision-making in mild traumatic brain injury.BMC emergency medicine · 2025Article
- How relations between early reading skills and third-grade mathematics outcomes vary across distribution: A quantile regression approach.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Factors influencing U.S. women's interest and preferences for breast cancer risk communication: a cross-sectional study from a large tertiary care breast imaging center.BMC women's health · 2024Article
- Decision-making for congenital anomalies diagnosed during pregnancy: a narrative review.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2024Review
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- Are Mobile Applications in Laryngology Designed for All Patients?The Laryngoscope · 2023Review
- Injury acknowledgement by reduction of sports load in world-leading athletics (track and field) athletes varies with their musculoskeletal health literacy and the socioeconomic environment.British journal of sports medicine · 2023Article
- Meeting the information and communication needs of health disparate populations.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
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Abstract
The purpose of this review is to organize various published conceptions of health numeracy and to discuss how health numeracy contributes to the productive use of quantitative information for health. We define health numeracy as the individual-level skills needed to understand and use quantitative health information, including basic computation skills, ability to use information in documents and non-text formats such as graphs, and ability to communicate orally. We also identify two other factors affecting whether a consumer can use quantitative health information: design of documents and other information artifacts, and health-care providers' communication skills. We draw upon the distributed cognition perspective to argue that essential ingredients for the productive use of quantitative health information include not only health numeracy but also good provider communication skills, as well as documents and devices that are designed to enhance comprehension and cognition.
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