Assessment Tools for Health Literacy among the General Population: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Health literacy is an important determinant of health, and is one of the key indicators of a healthy city. Developing and improving methods to measure health literacy is prudent and necessary. This review summarizes the findings of published tools for assessing health literacy among the general population to provide a reference for establishing health literacy assessment tools in the future. In this systematic review, PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science were used to search articles regarding tools for assessing health literacy among the general population published up to 10 January 2018. Two researchers independently conducted literature screening, quality assessment of methodology, and data extraction according to preset inclusion and exclusion criteria. The quality assessment of the resea

SUBMITTER: Liu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6122038 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature