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Literacy and health outcomes

Journal of General Internal Medicine · 2004 · Vol. 19(12) · pp. 1228–1239

Darren A. DeWalt✉(RTI International)Nancy D Berkman(RTI International)Stacey Sheridan(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)Kathleen N Lohr(RTI International)Michael Pignone(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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Health Literacy and Information Accessibility Mobile Health and mHealth Applications Health Education and ValidationMedicineCINAHLHealth literacyObservational studyMEDLINEPsychological interventionScale (ratio)Family medicineLiteracyNumeracy

MeSH terms

Educational StatusHealth ServicesHealth StatusHumansHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHealth BehaviorInformation Storage and Retrieval

Funding

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
RTI International
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Citations

2,301

FWCI

91.22

field-weighted impact

References

524

Percentile

100%

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