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Kutner, Mark; Greenburg, Elizabeth; Jin, Ying; Paulsen, Christine – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
Understanding the health literacy of America's adults is important because so many aspects of finding health care and health information, and maintaining health, depend on understanding written information. Many reports have suggested that low health literacy is associated with poor communication between patients and health care providers and with…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Adult Literacy, Public Health, Functional Literacy