Health status of illiterate adults: relation between literacy and health status among persons with low literacy skills

BD Weiss, G Hart, DL McGee… - The Journal of the …, 1992 - Am Board Family Med
Background: In nonindustrialized nations, illiteracy is independently associated with poor
health. The objective of this research was to determine whether such a relation exists in the …

The relationship between literacy and health

BD Weiss, G Hart, RE Pust - Journal of Health Care for the Poor and …, 1991 - muse.jhu.edu
In non-industrialized countries, populations with the lowest literacy rates have the poorest
health status. In the United States, however, there is no published research on whether …

In search of 'low health literacy': Threshold vs. gradient effect of literacy on health status and mortality

MS Wolf, J Feinglass, J Thompson, DW Baker - Social science & medicine, 2010 - Elsevier
Studies have demonstrated significant associations between limited literacy and health
outcomes. Yet differences in literacy measurement and the cutoffs used for analysis have …

Illiteracy among Medicaid recipients and its relationship to health care costs

BD Weiss, JS Blanchard, DL McGee, G Hart… - Journal of health Care …, 1994 - muse.jhu.edu
Poor literacy is associated with poor health status, but whether illiteracy is also linked to
higher medical care costs is unclear. We characterized the literacy skills of 402 randomly …

Relationship between health care costs and very low literacy skills in a medically needy and indigent Medicaid population

BD Weiss, R Palmer - The Journal of the American Board of …, 2004 - Am Board Family Med
Objectives: Previous research established that low literacy is independently associated with
poorer health. Our objective was to determine whether low literacy skill also is associated …

[HTML][HTML] Health in the'hidden population'of people with low literacy. A systematic review of the literature

P Easton, VA Entwistle, B Williams - BMC public health, 2010 - Springer
Background Much of the evidence of an association between low functional or health
literacy and poor health comes from studies that include people who have various cognitive …

Low health literacy predicts decline in physical function among older adults: findings from the LitCog cohort study

SG Smith, R O'Conor, LM Curtis, K Waite… - J Epidemiol …, 2015 - jech.bmj.com
Background Limited health literacy is associated with worse physical function in cross-
sectional studies. We aimed to determine if health literacy is a risk factor for decline in …

Literacy and health in America. Policy information report.

R Rudd, I Kirsch, K Yamamoto - Educational Testing Service, 2004 - ERIC
Researchers have long been interested in the relationship between literacy and health. Over
the past several decades, many studies have been conducted to analyze the difficulty of …

Interventions to improve health outcomes for patients with low literacy: A systematic review

M Pignone, DA DeWalt, S Sheridan, N Berkman… - Journal of general …, 2005 - Springer
OBJECTIVE: To perform a systematic review of interventions designed to improve health
outcomes for persons with low literacy skills. DATA SOURCES: We searched MEDLINE …

Importance of adult literacy in understanding health disparities

TL Sentell, HA Halpin - Journal of general internal medicine, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: In several recent studies, the importance of education and race in
explaining health‐related disparities has diminished when literacy was considered. This …