Learn about the many negative effects of limited health literacy and simple steps you can take to improve health care ...

Excerpted from "Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices About Your Health" by Talya Miron-Shatz. Copyright © 2021. Available from Basic Books ...

A FAIRLY new term, functional literacy, is now used to determine the state of literacy in the country. On April 4, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released the results of its 2024 Functional ...

A health literacy study of older African Americans aimed to establish whether associations exist between health literacy and preventive health screening behaviors, disease control, and medication ...

In the rush to digitize care through AI, telehealth and predictive analytics, many organizations have overlooked a fundamental variable that determines whether any of these innovations succeed: health ...

Despite previous research evidence, this study did not reveal an overall association of health literacy, numeracy, and graph literacy with all-cause hospitalizations or mortality. Objectives: To ...

Doctor is reading about Chronic kidney disease (CKD). Improving health literacy may offer a way to prevent adverse clinical outcomes in chronic kidney disease. Among adults with chronic kidney disease ...

MANILA, Philippines — A higher basic and functional literacy rate was recorded among individuals who reached at least a high school level of education, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.

Low health literacy (HL) and language negatively affect cancer screening and prevention behaviors; less is known about how they affect the patient’s experience during cancer treatment. This study ...