Selected readings
- Baker DW, Parker RM, Williams MV, et al. Health literacy and the risk of hospital admission. J Gen Intern Med 1998; 13(12):791–8
- Baker DW, Parker RM, Williams MV, et al. The health care experience of patients with low literacy. Arch Fam Med 1996; 5(6):29–34
- Baker DW, Parker RM, Williams MV, et al. The relationship of patient reading ability to self-reported health and use of health services. Am J Public Health 1997; 87(6):1027–30 Gazmararian JA, Baker DW, Williams MV, et al. Health literacy among Medicare enrollees in a managed care organization. JAMA 1999; 281(6):545–51
- Health literacy: report of the Council on Scientific Affairs. Ad Hoc Committee on Health Literacy for the Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association. JAMA 1999; 281(6):552–7
- Kirsch I, Jungeblut A, Jenkins L, et al. Adult literacy in America: a first look at the results of the national adult literacy survey. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, US Department of Education, 1993:xiii–xxi
- Parikh NS, Parker RM, Nurss JR, et al. Shame and health literacy: the unspoken connection. Patient Educ Couns 1996; 27(1):33–9
- Ratzan SC, Parker RM. Introduction. In: Current bibliographies in medicine 2000: health literacy. Available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm. Accessed April 4, 2001
- US Department of Health and Human Services. Healthy People 2010: understanding and improving health. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 2000
- Weiss BD, Blanchard JS, McGee DL, et al. Illiteracy among Medicaid recipients and its relationship to health care costs. J Health Care Poor Underserved 1994; 5(2):99–111
- Williams MV, Parker RM, Baker DW, et al. Inadequate functional health literacy among patients at two public hospitals. JAMA 1995; 274(21):1677–82