Health literacy improvement as a national priority

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages 1-3

  Benjamin, Regina ^a  

^a Surgeon General of the United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES;

EID: 77956992213     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2010.499992     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Institute of Medicine. (2004). Health literacy: A prescription to end confusion. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press. Available at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record-id=10883.
2. Kutner, M., Greenberg, E., Jin, Y., & Paulsen, C. (2006). The health literacy of America's adults: Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo. asp?pubid=2006483.
3. Kutner, M., Greenberg, E., & Baer, J. (2005). A first look at the literacy of America's adults in the 21st Century. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp? pubid=2006470.
4. National Literacy Act of 1991. Available at http://www.eric.ed.gov/ ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content-storage-01/0000019b/80/23/c2/4c.pdf.
5. National Science Foundation. (2008). Chapter 7. Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Understanding. In Science and Engineering Indicators 2008. Available at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind08/c7/c7h.htm.
6. Office of the Surgeon General. (2006). Proceedings of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Improving Health Literacy. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Available at http://www.surgeongeneral. gov/topics/healthliteracy/toc.html.
7. Paasche-Orlow, M. K., Schillinger, D., Greene, S. D., & Wagner, E. H. (2006). How health care systems can begin to address the challenge of limited health literacy. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 21(8), 884-887.
8. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2000). Healthy People 2010 (2nd ed.) [with Understanding and Improving Health (vol. 1) and Objectives for Improving Health (vol. 2)]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
9. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2007). National standards on culturally and linguistically appropriate services. Available at http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&ID=15.