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Health Literacy Considerations for a New Cancer Prevention Initiative.
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Abstract
Cancer prevention efforts are newly focused on the older adult population. Adult literacy and health literacy findings and suggestions can help shape more efficacious health communication strategies and thereby increase the "accessibility" of important health information and the potential for healthful action. National and international surveys of adult literacy skills have consistently offered problematic findings that older adults have more limited proficiencies than do younger working adults and face difficulties using commonly available materials to accomplish everyday tasks. Clinical as well as population-based studies of health literacy similarly find limited health literacy among a majority of U.S. adults and even poorer health literacy among older adults. This is of concern because health literacy studies have established clear links between limited literacy and poor health outcomes as well as diminished participation in activities related to disease prevention. Literacy experts note difficulties associated with abstract concepts and with sophisticated numeracy tasks, both associated with disease prevention. Health literacy findings and insights are important considerations in the development of health messages and materials to promote cancer prevention among older adults.
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