Validation of the Assessments of Adult Health Literacy: A Rasch Measurement Model Approach.

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 advocacy for health). HL is implicated in medical adherence, preventive health, mental health stigma and help-seeking, and health decision-making. Though HL is critical to health and health decision-making, research on HL is still relatively limited, with most research focusing

SUBMITTER: Fleary SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10441455 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature