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Download full textKutner, Mark; Greenburg, Elizabeth; Jin, Ying; Paulsen, Christine – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
Understanding the health literacy of America's adults is important because so many aspects of finding health care and health information, and maintaining health, depend on understanding written information. Many reports have suggested that low health literacy is associated with poor communication between patients and health care providers and with…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Adult Literacy, Public Health, Functional Literacy
Reder, Stephen; Edmonston, Barry – 2000
Anticipated demographic changes in the United States adult population in the decade between the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) of 1992 and the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), which is scheduled for 2002, were reviewed. Next, the implications of those changes for the NALS and NAAL were analyzed. The analysis focused on births,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Role, Aging (Individuals)
