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Health Literacy: A New Area of Research With Links to Communication

Rima E. Rudd Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
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Lindsay Rosenfeld Institute on Urban Health Research, Northeastern University
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Vanessa W. Simonds Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa
Pages 16-30 | Published online: 01 Feb 2012

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Rita Araújo, Felisbela Lopes, Olga Magalhães, Alberto Sá & Ana Aguiar. (2023) Behavior Guidance during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Health Literacy as a Weapon against the Virus. Health Communication 38:3, pages 490-498.
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John W. Cheng & Masaru Nishikawa. (2022) Effects of Health Literacy in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Infodemic: The Case of Japan. Health Communication 37:12, pages 1520-1533.
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Linda Aldoory. (2017) The Status of Health Literacy Research in Health Communication and Opportunities for Future Scholarship. Health Communication 32:2, pages 211-218.
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Linda Aldoory, Mark D. Macek, Kathryn A. Atchison & Hayan Chen. (2016) Comparing Well-Tested Health Literacy Measures for Oral Health: A Pilot Assessment. Journal of Health Communication 21:11, pages 1161-1169.
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Belén Cambronero-Saiz, Jesús Mula-Grau & Jesús Segarra-Saavedra. (2023) Comprensión de las noticias publicadas en prensa sobre COVID-19 por parte de alumnos universitarios de carreras del área de comunicación en Alicante (2021). Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico 29:1, pages 55-66.
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Marija Levic, Natasa Bogavac-Stanojevic & Dusanka Krajnovic. (2021) The Instruments Used to Assess Health Literacy and Pharmacotherapy Literacy of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Patients: A Scoping Review. Frontiers in Public Health 9.
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Vanessa W. Simonds & Dedra Buchwald. (2019) Too Dense and Too Detailed: Evaluation of the Health Literacy Attributes of an Informed Consent Document. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 7:2, pages 327-335.
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Linda Håkansson, Mariette Derwig & Ewy Olander. (2019) Parents’ experiences of a health dialogue in the child health services: a qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research 19:1.
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Terri Ann Parnell, Jaynelle F. Stichler, Amy J. Barton, Lori A. Loan, Diane K. Boyle & Patricia E. Allen. (2019) A concept analysis of health literacy. Nursing Forum 54:3, pages 315-327.
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Janet Woollen, Robert Scott, Robert Lucero & Suzanne Bakken. (2019) A semi-automated approach for analyzing collages to inform the design of a family health information management system for Hispanic dementia caregivers. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 95, pages 103225.
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Rima E Rudd. (2019) Health Literacy Considerations for a New Cancer Prevention Initiative. The Gerontologist 59:Supplement_1, pages S7-S16.
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Diane Levin-Zamir & Isabella Bertschi. (2018) Media Health Literacy, eHealth Literacy, and the Role of the Social Environment in Context. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15:8, pages 1643.
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Hanne Søberg Finbråten, Kjell Sverre Pettersen, Bodil Wilde-Larsson, Gun Nordström, Anne Trollvik & Øystein Guttersrud. (2017) Validating the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire in people with type 2 diabetes: Latent trait analyses applying multidimensional Rasch modelling and confirmatory factor analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing 73:11, pages 2730-2744.
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Rebecca E. Ryan & Sophie J. Hill. (2014) Improving the experiences and health of people with multimorbidity: exploratory research with policymakers and information providers on comorbid arthritis. Australian Journal of Primary Health 20:2, pages 188.
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Leigh F. Callahan, Victoria Hawk, Rima Rudd, Betsy Hackney, Sonia Bhandari, Lindsay P. Prizer, Thomas K. Bauer, Beth Jonas, Philip Mendys & Darren DeWalt. (2013) Adaptation of the health literacy universal precautions toolkit for rheumatology and cardiology – Applications for pharmacy professionals to improve self-management and outcomes in patients with chronic disease. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 9:5, pages 597-608.
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