Economic Implications of Insufficient Health Literacy

Đukić, Nikolina; Blecich, Andrea Arbula; Cerović, Ljerka

doi:10.1080/1331677x.2013.11517643

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“…In Europe, a study on HL in eight EU countries [ 4 ] showed that people with low HL have a higher prevalence of long-term conditions, which in turn are more likely to be limiting, and that low HL level is significantly associated with worse self-assessed health. Research on HL in Croatia is still in its infancy, with no studies published at the national level [ 5 ] and previous published studies either using a nonvalidated instrument [ 6 ] or focusing mostly on readability, comprehension or informed consent issues [ 5 , 7 – 11 ].…”

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Health literacy of hospital patients using a linguistically validated Croatian version of the Newest Vital Sign screening test (NVS-HR)

Brangan

Ivanišić

Rafaj³

et al. 2018

PLoS ONE

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The Newest Vital Sign (NVS) is a simple, quick and accurate screening test for health literacy (HL). It has been validated for different languages but, to date, not for the Croatian language. The aim of this study was to develop a linguistically validated Croatian version of the NVS and to use it at a later stage in a pilot study of health literacy assessment of hospital patients in Croatia. A full linguistic validation procedure was applied, including forward and backward translation, expert panel review, cognitive interview with 10 respondents from general population, and full involvement in the procedure of one of the screening test developers, the lead author of the NVS-UK version. HL testing on 100 hospital patients (55% women, median age 63.5 years) revealed 58% of patients had less than adequate HL level (scores less than 4), and mean NVS total score was 3.34. A positive significant association was observed between HL and educational level (p = 0.002). A high percentage of patients (92%) did not object to being tested for HL by their primary care physician or in hospital, and 99% of patients would recommend HL testing among patients in general. The respondents' positive views on HL testing and mean completion time of 4 minutes indicate that the Croatian version of the NVS (NVS-HR) could be recommended for use in both clinical and research settings in Croatia.

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Health literacy of hospital patients using a linguistically validated Croatian version of the Newest Vital Sign screening test (NVS-HR)

Brangan

Ivanišić

Rafaj³

et al. 2018

PLoS ONE

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“…Human capital is also essential in the presence of stunting and TFP growth correlation. This is because a better human capital, shown by higher enrollment rate, might associate to the better insight about health literacy and the importance of health itself (Dukic et al, 2013). The finding is shown in the Figure 4.…”

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Does Stunting Associate to the Total Factor Productivity? A Case of East Java, Indonesia

Yasin

Arini

2019

EJAVEC

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Although stunting prevalence and many economic indicators are claimed associating to long-term correlation, the finding of this question might signal the policy arrangement that should be taken. This study aims to examine the correlation of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth and stunting prevalence of the 38 districts in East Java, Indonesia from 2017 to 2019. By employing fixed-effect model to estimate TFP growth using Growth Accounting approach, as well as quantitative approach and pairwise correlation, to identify the correlation between TFP growth and stunting prevalence, this study found that there is a negative association between TFP growth and stunting prevalence. Moreover, an intriguing finding reveals that districts with largest Gross Domestic Regional Product (GDRP) shows the strongest correlation amongst others. A plausible reason of this result is that district with large GDRP might allocate more budget for stunting reduction programs, for example the district of Sidoarjo. The negative association between TFP growth and stunting prevalence is then confirmed by statistical results of pairwise correlation from Pearson and Spearman’s Rho that both show significant correlation between those two indicators by larger than 0.3, indicating a non-trivial association between TFP growth and stunting prevalence.

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“…Thus, future research efforts of scientists should be focused on patients' confidence in a relation with their level of health literacy. This topic is receiving more and more attention and should be further developed in the issues presented by this study (Sorensen et al, 2013;Nutbeam, 2017;Dukic et al, 2013;Rolová, 2020).…”

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The importance of evaluating inpatients? satisfaction with emphasis on the aspect of confidence

Gavurová

Kubák

2021

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Research background: The patients? confidence in physicians, as well as in healthcare personnel in general, is an important determinant of the patients? satisfaction and their loyalty. The patients? confidence as well as their overall satisfaction is influenced by many determinants, which are in a causal relation. Purpose of the article: The main aim of the study is to find out which socio-demographic factors influence the confidence of inpatients in physicians, nurses, other medical personnel, as well as in the treatment as such. The inpatients´ confidence is considered as an important dimension of the inpatients? satisfaction. Methods: The questionnaire consists of 112 structured and semi-structured sur-vey questions. It was inspired by the HCAHPS survey. The questionnaire was distributed both on-line and in paper form in the Czech Republic. The dataset consists of 1,479 observations (899 females and 580 males). The descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression were used to process all data. Findings & value added: The research revealed significant differences in the confidence of inpatients in physicians in relation to the physicians? communication styles regarding the inpatient?s gender. Males are more tolerant to the communication styles of physicians than women. There exists a relatively strong linear relationship between confidence in physicians, nurses, other healthcare professionals, and confidence in a treatment. Also, it was determined that in cases when a physician talks about an inpatient as if she/he is not there, the patient?s confidence in the medical personnel is reduced by 65%. Overall confidence in medical personnel is also gender biased i.e., in 87% of cases, women are more likely to have a higher confidence in medical personnel than men. The age of inpatients is not statistically significant and its impact on a confidence in medical personnel is neglectable.

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Economic Implications of Insufficient Health Literacy

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

Health literacy of hospital patients using a linguistically validated Croatian version of the Newest Vital Sign screening test (NVS-HR)

Health literacy of hospital patients using a linguistically validated Croatian version of the Newest Vital Sign screening test (NVS-HR)

Does Stunting Associate to the Total Factor Productivity? A Case of East Java, Indonesia

The importance of evaluating inpatients? satisfaction with emphasis on the aspect of confidence

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