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ArticleHealth & social work2020

Health Literacy Barriers in the Health Care System: Barriers and Opportunities for the Profession.

Paula Allen-Meares, Brienne Lowry, Mayra L Estrella, Sudaba Mansuri

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Article in Health & social work, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Paula Allen-MearesHealth Literacy and Institute for Minority Health Research, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Brienne LowryHealth Literacy and Institute for Minority Health Research, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Mayra L EstrellaHealth Literacy and Institute for Minority Health Research, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Sudaba MansuriRush University, Chicago.

Funding

The influence of structural violence and individual behavior and health on the gut microbiome and colorectal cancer riskU54MD012523 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI WINN, ROBERT A. · 2017 to 2022
$7.9M
Training in CVD Epidemiology & Related Chronic Diseases in Minority PopulationsT32HL125294 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI DAVIGLUS, MARTHA L · 2015 to 2019
$1.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL125294NIMHD NIH HHS U54 MD012523
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Delivery of Health CareHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHealth LiteracyHealth StatusHumansLimited English ProficiencySocial Determinants of HealthSocial Workers

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PMID31993624
PMCPMC8453407

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