Medically Illiterate

Understanding Health Literacy | Health Literacy | CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy/learn/understanding.html

Health literacy is important for everyone because, at some point in our lives, we all need to be able to find, understand, and use health information and services. …

What Is Health Literacy? | Health Literacy | CDC

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Health Literacy: The Gap Between Physicians and Patients

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The American Medical Association (AMA) defines health literacy as “a constellation of skills, including the ability to perform basic reading and numerical tasks …

Health Literacy: MedlinePlus

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What is health literacy? Health literacy involves the information that people need to be able to make good decisions about health. There are two …

The medical illiteracy epidemic - KevinMD.com

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Medical illiteracy (or low health literacy) has been linked to poor health outcomes, such as increased risk for hospitalization, increased racial disparities and less …

Medical Literacy: Read This or Die | Live …

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The health illiteracy cuts across ethnic groups and, not surprising, disproportionately affects the medically uninsured, essentially because of their poor …

Challenging AMA discussions with medically illiterate …

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I deal with a predominantly medically illiterate community, and do not expect them to explain the ins and outs of why declining treatment is not in their favor as if they …

Americans are medically illiterate; are you surprised? - EMS1

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Americans are medically illiterate; are you surprised? Flu vaccine does not cause flu, but four in 10 of us believe it does Dec 11, 2014 Medical literacy, like simply …

The Price of Medical Illiteracy - Governing

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Nearly 15 percent are totally health illiterate, mostly due to language barriers. In between those extremes, around 40 percent of the adults in the U.S. have only …

The medically illiterate - Dothan Eagle

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The evolution of medicine has resulted in the mitigation or elimination of many childhood diseases by immunization, and a schedule of vaccinations has been a …