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Direct linkElder, Catherine; Barber, Melissa; Staples, Margaret; Osborne, Richard H.; Clerehan, Rosemary; Buchbinder, Rachelle – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012
Health literacy, defined as an individual's capacity to process health information in order to make appropriate health decisions, is the focus of increasing attention in medical fields due to growing awareness that suboptimal health literacy is associated with poorer health outcomes. To explore this issue, a number of instruments, reported to have…
Descriptors: Health, Information Literacy, Adult Literacy, Medicine
Goyen, Judith D. – Literacy Discussion, 1976
A study to determine the incidence of functional illiteracy in English among adults in the metropolitan area of Sydney is reported, which showed the incidence of illiteracy among Australian/English born adults to be lower than previously reported while that among non-English born is very high. (WL)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Illiteracy
