| A group of medical residents were asked to identify which of their patients had inadequate health literacy. |
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| Patients with inadequate health literacy are more likely to be hospitalized than patients with adequate skills. |
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| Inadequate health literacy was identified in 16 participants. |
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| A recent video released by the American Medical Association reported that about onehalf of Americans have low health literacy and one-fifth are functionally illiterate. |
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| The health literacy demands of the healthcare system often exceed the health literacy skills of Americans. |
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| The association between oral health literacy and missed dental appointments. |
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| The very groups that could help address the health literacy gap are the ones the government is starving. |
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| Education for all has led to high levels of literacy, including a focus on health literacy. |
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| Yoomagazine.net is an interactive online health and mental health literacy program designed for youth, parents and schools. |
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| It is important for health literacy also to be taken into account in health services. |
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| We need to complement what we are doing with a massive information campaign to raise health literacy in communities and within households. |
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| Community support can also increase health literacy, and help reduce stigmatization of conditions such as mental disorders. |
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| Participants with inadequate health literacy were less likely to correctly answer every question, with significant differences noted for 5 of 10 items. |
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| Ironing out differences in health literacy levels between member states could go some way to closing the gaps in life expectancy in Europe, he suggested. |
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| New actions aiming to improve the health of older people, ensure that organ transplants are safe and improve health literacy in the EU are expected to benefit citizens directly. |
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| The severity of Europe's health literacy deficit is being measured through an EU-funded European Health Literacy Survey, which will report initial results at the Gastein Health Forum in October. |
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| Example: a better education generally leads to higher health literacy, while the exposure to health risks depends on one's professional occupation. |
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| With the development of the Internet as a source of health information, health literacy may also include the ability to search the Internet and evaluate web sites. |
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| They should protect their health by providing health information, improving health literacy, developing education in food tastes, and promoting a healthy lifestyle. |
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| The growing number of senior citizens creates new opportunities for continuing education among this group especially in the area of health literacy. |
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| This being so, any interventions aiming to promote health and preventive care have to take the role of health literacy in the health behaviour of migrants into account. |
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| We stress that health literacy is an important factor in ensuring significant health outcomes and in this regard, call for the development of appropriate action plans to promote health literacy. |
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