What is Health Literacy?
Health Literacy is defined by Healthy People 2010 as "the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions."
Literacy skills predict an individuals' health status more strongly than age, income, employment status, education level, and racial or ethnic group.
Databases
These databases will have information relating to health literacy:
- PubMed
Access over 20 million biomedical journal article citations back to the late 1940's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. - CINAHL Search for full text for nursing & allied health journal articles.1937 to present.
- ERIC Search for educational related journal articles, books and reports, many full text . 1966 to present. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES), which supports a free online version of the database.
- LISTA Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings.
Newest articles on Health Literacy from PubMed
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Recommended subject headings
When searching for health literacy information, use the terms listed below with the subject of interest.
- INNOPAC (Library Catalog)Health Education
Communication Barriers
Educational Status
Patient Information - MEDLINE (Pubmed)Health Literacy
Consumer Health Information
Health Promotion
Health Education
Patient Education as Topic - CINAHL Information Literacy
Health Education
Patient Education - ERICLiteracy
Health Education
Health Promotion - LISTAHealth Literacy
Information Literacy
Websites
- Healthy People 2020Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For 3 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to:
- Encourage collaborations across communities and sectors.
- Empower individuals toward make informed health decisions.
- Measure the impact of prevention activities. - Health Literacy Websites from LSUHSC-NO Delicious AccountSelected links from the LSUHSC Library.
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