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Why Is Health Literacy Related to Health? An Exploration among U.S. National Assessment of Adult Literacy Participants 40 Years of Age and Older
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Ownby, Raymond L.; Waldrop-Valverde, Drenna; Taha, Jessica – Educational Gerontology, 2012
Health literacy has emerged as an important factor related to health in older persons. The reason for the link between health literacy and health outcomes is not clear. Possible explanations include common relations among income, education, access to health care, health-promotion behaviors, frequency of reading, and perceptual impairments. In this…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Adult Literacy