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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Increasing Health Literacy May Reduce Health Inequalities: Evidence from a National Population Survey in Ireland.

Sarah Gibney, Lucy Bruton, Catherine Ryan, Gerardine Doyle, Gillian Rowlands

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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37citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sarah GibneyDepartment of Health, Dublin 2, DO2 XW14, Ireland.
Lucy BrutonDepartment of Health, Dublin 2, DO2 XW14, Ireland.
Catherine RyanDepartment of Health, Dublin 2, DO2 XW14, Ireland.
Gerardine DoyleUCD College of Business, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, D04 V1W8, Ireland.
Gillian RowlandsPopulation Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7388-7771
Department of Health · IENewcastle University · GBUniversity College Dublin · IE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Health BehaviorHealth LiteracyHealth StatusHealth Status DisparitiesAdultFemaleHumansIrelandMaleSocioeconomic FactorsSurveys and Questionnaireshealth disparitieshealth inequalitieshealth literacyreduction of inequalities

Identifiers

PMID32823744
PMCPMC7459493
OpenAlexW3048732903

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