 Health Literacy
"Health Literacy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
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D057220
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I02.233.332.186.500 L01.143.450.500 N02.421.726.407.229.500
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Health Literacy".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Health Literacy".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Literacy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Literacy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Literacy" by people in Profiles.
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Woods SP, Iudicello JE, Morgan EE, Cameron MV, Doyle KL, Smith TV, Cushman C. Health-Related Everyday Functioning in the Internet Age: HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders Disrupt Online Pharmacy and Health Chart Navigation Skills. Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2016 Mar; 31(2):176-85.
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King-Marshall EC, Mueller N, Dailey A, Barnett TE, George TJ, Sultan S, Curbow B. "It is just another test they want to do": Patient and caregiver understanding of the colonoscopy procedure. Patient Educ Couns. 2016 Apr; 99(4):651-658.
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Akay A, Dragomir A, Erlandsson BE. Network-based modeling and intelligent data mining of social media for improving care. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2015 Jan; 19(1):210-8.
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Stewart DW, Reitzel LR, Correa-Fernández V, Cano MÁ, Adams CE, Cao Y, Li Y, Waters AJ, Wetter DW, Vidrine JI. Social support mediates the association of health literacy and depression among racially/ethnically diverse smokers with low socioeconomic status. J Behav Med. 2014 Dec; 37(6):1169-79.
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