 Health Literacy
"Health Literacy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
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D057220
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I02.233.332.186.500 L01.143.450.500 N02.421.143.827.407.228.500 N02.421.726.407.228.500
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Health Literacy".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Health Literacy".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Literacy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Literacy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2015 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2016 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Literacy" by people in Profiles.
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Ginat DT, Christoforidis G. A printed information leaflet about MRI and radiologists improves neuroradiology patient health literacy. Neuroradiol J. 2018 Dec; 31(6):609-613.
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Jaffee EG, Arora VM, Matthiesen MI, Meltzer DO, Press VG. Health Literacy and Hospital Length of Stay: An Inpatient Cohort Study. J Hosp Med. 2017 12; 12(12):969-973.
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Downey VA, Zun LS. Non-compliance in the Emergency Department: Is there a difference between medical and psychiatric patient's reasons and use of the Emergency Department. Am J Emerg Med. 2017 12; 35(12):1961-1962.
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Garrett SB, Koenig CJ, Trupin L, Hlubocky FJ, Daugherty CK, Reinert A, Munster P, Dohan D. What advanced cancer patients with limited treatment options know about clinical research: a qualitative study. Support Care Cancer. 2017 10; 25(10):3235-3242.
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Melzer AC, Ghassemieh BJ, Gillespie SE, Lindenauer PK, McBurnie MA, Mularski RA, Naureckas ET, Vollmer WM, Au DH. Patient characteristics associated with poor inhaler technique among a cohort of patients with COPD. Respir Med. 2017 02; 123:124-130.
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Jaffee EG, Arora VM, Matthiesen MI, Hariprasad SM, Meltzer DO, Press VG. Postdischarge Falls and Readmissions: Associations with Insufficient Vision and Low Health Literacy among Hospitalized Seniors. J Health Commun. 2016; 21(sup2):135-140.
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Louis AJ, Arora VM, Matthiesen MI, Meltzer DO, Press VG. Screening Hospitalized Patients for Low Health Literacy: Beyond the REALM of Possibility? Health Educ Behav. 2017 06; 44(3):360-364.
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Polite BN, Cipriano-Steffens T, Hlubocky F, Dignam J, Ray M, Smith D, Undevia S, Sprague E, Olopade O, Daugherty C, Fitchett G, Gehlert S. An Evaluation of Psychosocial and Religious Belief Differences in a Diverse Racial and Socioeconomic Urban Cancer Population. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2017 04; 4(2):140-148.
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Matthiesen MI, Vela MB, Press VG. Health Literacy During Aging. J Gen Intern Med. 2015 Dec; 30(12):1731.
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De Oliveira GS, McCarthy RJ, Wolf MS, Holl J. The impact of health literacy in the care of surgical patients: a qualitative systematic review. BMC Surg. 2015 Jul 17; 15:86.
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