In Texas, these gaps are even more pronounced in communities with barriers related to language, income, education and access ...

In the rush to digitize care through AI, telehealth and predictive analytics, many organizations have overlooked a fundamental variable that determines whether any of these innovations succeed: health ...

In a new study, researchers examined the associations between health literacy with patient-reported outcomes and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease activity and damage. Findings showed that ...

A new international health literacy survey has found that about one in four people (28 per cent) in Ireland have "limited" health literacy and struggle to find and evaluate health information. The ...

This study provides insight on the experiences of patients of a national health plan with 2 structural determinants of health—health care discrimination and health literacy—and how those interact with ...

Digital Health Literacy and Its Role in Awareness of and Access to Sexual Health Products and Services Among Displaced Youth in Uganda’s Informal Urban Settlements: Community-Ba ...

THE image persists in my mind the day a patient walked into the pharmacy, clutching a bag of medications with a look of confusion and concern. In his late 60s, he had recently been diagnosed with ...

Many Filipinos have limited health literacy which can hinder their ability to effectively manage their health, according to the National Health Literacy Survey (NHLS), the first nationwide survey on ...

Nurturing relationships are essential to early childhood literacy and later mental and physical health outcomes ...