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Health Literacy in African-American Communities: Barriers and …

(3 days ago) WEBHealth literacy barriers should be addressed on both supply (i.e., health system) and demand side (i.e., consumers). Examples of supply-side interventions include establishing user-friendly and culturally sensitive health system navigation processes, …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7365659/

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Health Literacy in African-American Communities: Barriers and

(Just Now) WEBIntroduction. Eighty-seven million American adults have low health literacy (LHL), costing up to $238 billion annually in inefficiencies (Vernon, Trujillo, Rosenbaum, & DeBuono, 2007).Yet, the highly complex United States health care and health insurance systems require advanced health literacy for effective navigation (Kindig, Panzer, & …

https://journals.healio.com/doi/10.3928/24748307-20200617-01

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HEALTH LITERACY IN THE UNITED STATES - Milken Institute

(2 days ago) WEBhealth literacy cost the US economy up to $238 billion every year, or 17 percent of all personal health-care expenditure (Vernon, 2007). Health literacy is an intermediate social determinant of health in a model where individual-level characteristics interact with context-dependent determinants and

https://milkeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/2022-05/Health_Literacy_United_States_Final_Report.pdf

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Key Data on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity

(6 days ago) WEBThis report examines how people of color fared compared to White people across a broad range of measures of health, health care, and social determinants of health. It found that Black, Hispanic, and AIAN people had worse outcomes than White people for most examined measures, while Asian people had mixed results.

https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/report/key-data-on-health-and-health-care-by-race-and-ethnicity/

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Health Literacy in African-American Communities: Barriers and …

(4 days ago) WEBThis article explores the disproportionate low health literacy among African Americans and its impact on health outcomes. It also discusses the historical, social, and cultural factors that affect health literacy and the interventions to improve it.

https://journals.healio.com/doi/pdf/10.3928/24748307-20200617-01

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Health Literacy and Health Equity: Connecting the Dots

(Just Now) WEBLearn how health literacy and health equity are related concepts that can improve public health communication and outcomes. Explore CDC's new resource, Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication, to help you apply both principles in your work.

https://health.gov/news/202110/health-literacy-and-health-equity-connecting-dots

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Advancing Better Health Through Better Understanding for Black …

(3 days ago) WEBAdvancing Better Health Through Better Understanding for Black and African American Communities: Health Literacy, Health Care Access, and Culturally Appropriate Care 2024 Reading List Black Race & Cardiovascular Diseases. American Heart Association, heart.org, 2022. Adult Vaccination: Protecting Your Health and Your Heart.

https://www.hhs.gov/black-history-month/reading-list/index.html

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The Relationship between Health Literacy and Health Disparities:

(3 days ago) WEBThis article synthesizes the evidence on how health literacy is related to health disparities, such as racial/ethnic or educational differences in health outcomes. It identifies potential pathways and gaps in the literature, and suggests directions for future research and interventions.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0145455

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Race, Inequality, and Health KFF

(5 days ago) WEBThis Health Policy 101 chapter provides an overview of racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care and the factors that drive them, including the role of historical events and social

https://www.kff.org/health-policy-101-race-inequality-and-health/

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Health Literacy - Healthy People 2030 health.gov

(1 days ago) WEBHealthy People 2030 has elevated the importance of health literacy by declaring it a foundational principle and overarching goal, and by adopting two definitions that together constitute health literacy.Personal health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related …

https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/social-determinants-health/literature-summaries/health-literacy

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Culture & Health Literacy Health Literacy CDC

(7 days ago) WEBLearn how to communicate health information across cultures and languages with CDC's resources and best practices. Find out how to use the National CLAS Standards, HEGP, and other tools to overcome cultural and linguistic barriers.

https://www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy/culture.html

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Social Disparities in Health Literacy in the United States

(Just Now) WEBHealth literacy. HL was measured using a modified, self-administered form of the Newest Vital Sign (NVS) (Weiss et al., 2005). Four questions based on an ice cream nutrition label assessed numeracy and reading skills. Race-specific disparity was 0.0624, suggesting that 6.24% of non-White people need to improve HL to eliminate race …

https://journals.healio.com/doi/10.3928/24748307-20190131-01

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Health Literacy: Why It Matters for Minority Health and Health

(5 days ago) WEBA basic principle of effective communication is to know the audience.1 This principle is especially important for patient-provider interactions that involve risk and diagnostic information, preventive measures, and instructions on medication regimens. But a message said is not necessarily a message understood. A patient’s understanding …

https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/news/health-literacy-why-it-matters-minority-health-and-health-disparities

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Far from black and white: Role of race, health literacy, and

(1 days ago) WEBRace, health literacy, and area deprivation index were not significantly associated with outcomes (P > .05). Conclusion. Among patients with acute diverticulitis, no difference in severity of presentation by race, health literacy, or area deprivation index was observed. These findings suggest that differences in presentation of acute

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039606021005341

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Health literacy : The solid facts - World Health Organization

(6 days ago) WEBHealth literacy is a key dimension of Health 2020, the European health policy framework adopted by Mem-ber States in 2012. Health literacy is both a means and an outcome of actions aimed at promoting the empowerment and participation of people in their communities and of people in their health care.

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/128703/e96854.pdf

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"The Effects of Mental Health Literacy and Perceived Social …

(8 days ago) WEBThe goals of this study were to determine a) whether minoritized groups in the United States had lower levels of mental health literacy (MHL) and higher levels of stigma, b) whether people with higher rates of MHL and social support had lower rates of stigma and c) whether MHL and perceived social support were stronger predictors of stigma …

https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/senior_theses/646/

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Health Literacy, Health Outcomes and Equity: A Trend Analysis …

(8 days ago) WEBSeveral studies have demonstrated that age, race/ethnicity, education level, economic status, cognition, health status, and non-native English speakers are factors associated with low health literacy. 1,5,6 These health literacy factors have also been shown to be associated with and drivers of health disparities. Previous reports suggest …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21501319231156132

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Including race in clinical algorithms can both reduce and increase

(9 days ago) WEBBetter biomarkers may one day be able to better predict health outcomes than race and ethnicity. Until then, including race in certain clinical algorithms could help reduce disparities.

https://theconversation.com/including-race-in-clinical-algorithms-can-both-reduce-and-increase-health-inequities-it-depends-on-what-doctors-use-them-for-206168

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Taking Health Literacy to the Next Level Psychology Today

(1 days ago) WEBKey points. Health literacy includes knowledge, communication, and critical thinking. Self-efficacy is a determining factor in successful self-management of health.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/health-and-human-nature/202405/taking-health-literacy-to-the-next-level

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