Abstract:Background: Both the World Health Organization and U.S. Department for Health and Human Services have emphasized the importance of health literacy (HL) to improving population health and reducing health disparities. HL includes three core areas/qualities: functional (i.e., health-related reading, writing, and numeracy), interactive/communicative (i.e., skills for interacting with multiple constituents and sources of information and navigating the health environment), and critical (i.e., personal and community … Show more
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