Health Literacy in Older Adults
Useful Resources:
- AHRQ. Health Literacy: Hidden Barriers and Practical Strategies. Feb 15, 2020.; Berkman et al. Ann Intern Med, 2011. DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-155-2-201107190-00005.
- AHRQ. Health Literacy Measurement Tools. Feb 15, 2020.
- AHRQ Health Literacy Resources
- Automatic Readability Checker
- Brief questions to identify patients with inadequate health literacy. Chew, Bradley, & Boyko, 2004.
- Development and Validation of a Short-Form, Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine. Medical Care, 45(11), 1026-1033. Arozullah, A. M., Yarnold, P. R., Bennett, C. L., Soltysik, R. C., Wolf, M. S., Ferreira, R. M., . . . Davis, T. (2007).
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- Health Literacy in Primary Care Practice. LAUREN HERSH, MD; BROOKE SALZMAN, MD; and DANIELLE SNYDERMAN, MD, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Am Fam Physician. 2015 Jul 15;92(2):118-124.
- Introduction. In C. R. Selden, M. Zorn, S. C. Ratzan, & R. M. Parker (Eds.), Health Literacy (pp. v-vii). Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Ratzan, S. C., & Parker, R. M. (2000)
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- National Center for Education Statistics. (2019). Adult literacy in the United States.
- National Health Literacy Mapping to Inform Health Care Policy (2014). Health Literacy Data Map. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- Practical Strategies
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- The UNC Health Science Library
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- Universal Precaution Toolkit
