normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: accessing to health information, getting informed about the health and illness issues is an important factor for health status. it is expected that having a good health requires using this type of information. having such active role in patient and healthy population needs higher level of health literacy. this ...

in this paper, i attempt to bring together approaches to literacy in theory and in practice, drawing upon various activities i have been involved in over the years–research in iranian villages during the 1970s; linking research and theory to literacy policy, with particular reference to a contribution to the unesco global monitoring report in 2004 and involvement in an ongoing adult literacy tr...

BACKGROUND Inadequate health literacy in adults is a nationwide issue that is associated with worse health outcomes. There is a paucity of literacy regarding rates of inadequate health literacy in psychiatric populations. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to identify an existing tool that would easily identify patients who had inadequate health literacy, so that a targeted intervention could...

Results: A total of 2016 study subjects completed the questionnaire (response rate 93.7%) with the mean age of 34.2 ± 12.8 years. The overall health literacy was 10.2 ± 4.2 and around 51% of the subjects reported marginal health literacy, while only 0.3% of inadequate health literacy was noticed among males aged 55+ years possessing university education. The overall health literacy and its doma...

in a case control study the effects of literacy, socio-economic status and the fertility behavior of mothers were fully investigated in two groups. out of 13123 babies born in 17 hospitals during almost 8 months in 1988-1989 in tehran 730 had a low birth weight (less than 2500 gr). as a control group, 1460 births were randomly selected from normal weight births. some basic findings are as follo...

Low health literacy is associated with higher mortality, higher rates of hospitalization, and poor self-management skills for chronic disease. Early, unplanned hospital reutilization after discharge is a common and costly occurrence in U.S. hospitals. Still, few studies have examined the relation between health literacy and 30-day hospital reutilization rates. The authors examined the associati...

We examine the consequences of parental control over choice of wives for sons, for parental incentives to educate daughters, in a dualistic transitional economy, where preferences conflict across generations and the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments. Parental control generates persistence of low levels of female literacy, despite economic growth. In steady state equilibrium, t...