ArticleJournal of health communication2014
Advancing health literacy measurement: a pathway to better health and health system performance.
Article in Journal of health communication, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04327102 (Health Management Model Construction and Effect Evaluation of Hypertension Patients Based on Disease-related Health Literacy), which is not on this map. Cited by 62 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Health Management Model Construction and Effect Evaluation of Hypertension Patients Based on Disease-related Health Literacy
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Generic health literacy measurement instruments for children and adolescents: a systematic review of the literature.BMC public health · 2018Pooled it
- Different Measures, Different Outcomes? A Systematic Review of Performance-Based versus Self-Reported Measures of Health Literacy and Numeracy.Journal of general internal medicine · 2015Pooled it
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- Migration and health literacy: a qualitative analysis of health literacy among Africans from refugee backgrounds in Australia.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Risk factors associated with health literacy among community residents in China based on multiple correspondence analysis and ordinal logistic regression.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Choosing the Best Digital Health Literacy Measure for Research: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
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Abstract
The concept of health literacy initially emerged and continues to gain strength as an approach to improving health status and the performance of health systems. Numerous studies clearly link low levels of education, literacy, and health literacy with poor health, poor health care utilization, increased barriers to care, and early death. However, theoretical understandings and methods of measuring the complex social construct of health literacy have experienced a continual evolution that remains incomplete. As a result, the seemingly most-cited definition of health literacy proposed in the now-decade-old Institute of Medicine report on health literacy is long overdue for updating. Such an effort should engage a broad and diverse set of health literacy researchers, practitioners, and members of the public in creating a definition that can earn broad consensus through validation testing in a rigorous scientific approach. That effort also could produce the basis for a new universally applicable measure of health literacy. Funders, health systems, and policymakers should reconsider their timid approach to health literacy. Although the field and corresponding evidence base are not perfect, health literacy-especially when combined with a focus on prevention and integrative health-is one of the most promising approaches to advancing public health.
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