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Prevention, oral health literacy, rebuilding public health infrastructure are key to improving nation's oral health

News - 27 Oct 2010

The American Dental Association (ADA) said today that it welcomes an organization of the stature of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to join the fight to improve the nation's oral health.

Researchers map European health and digital health literacy

News - 31 Jul 2023

?Researchers at RMIT University have helped map European health and digital health literacy, in an important step towards informing health policy and practice across the region.

Federal funding to help UNT Health Science Center lead health literacy outreach in seven states

News - 9 Apr 2021

Federal funding from the National Institutes of Health will allow The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth to serve as a leader in health literacy outreach.

Health law bumps in the road: Subsidy eligibility questions, Medi-Cal asset seizure, health literacy

News - 17 Jun 2014

Obamacare programs designed to help people are running into problems concerning how much money people have when they get covered.

Health literacy plays vital role in health outcomes

News - 15 Dec 2012

The Institute of Medicine defines health literacy as: "the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make...

Health practitioners need to assess health literacy to overcome barrier to quality care: MD Anderson nurse

News - 30 Apr 2011

Low health literacy is a significant barrier to quality care, especially among elderly patients, but increased use of simple and effective health literacy assessment tests by nurses and clinicians can...

University of Missouri to offer health literacy courses for health professionals

News - 19 Feb 2010

The cost of low health literacy - the difference between patients' abilities to understand health information and providers' abilities to effectively communicate complex medical information - is $106...

UCLA and Health Net to develop health literacy training intervention for adolescents

News - 11 Feb 2010

With the average teen spending approximately nine hours a week on social networking sites, the UCLA School of Public Health has partnered with Health Net of California to develop a health literacy...

Limited health literacy linked with poorer access to health information

News - 15 Sep 2009

People who struggle with poor reading and math skills experience problems understanding instructions from health care providers and adhering to treatment, according to a new research review.

Older Americans with low health literacy may face higher risk of death

News - 21 Jul 2011

Low health literacy in older Americans is linked to poorer health status and a higher risk of death, according to a new evidence review by researchers at RTI International-University of North Carolina...

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