Scholars and practitioners share a significant concern about rising healthcare costs. Health
literacy is widely presented as a solution to this momentous issue, paving the way for a more …

WHO has defined health literacy as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to
obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make basic …

There has been a rapid increase in the number of publications on health literacy in general,
but also specifically on organisational health literacy, health-literate healthcare …

Background: Health literacy presents an enormous challenge in the delivery of effective
healthcare and quality outcomes. We evaluated the impact of low health literacy (LHL) on …

Objectives To update a 2004 systematic review of health care service use and health
outcomes related to differences in health literacy level and interventions designed to …

Background Low health literacy is associated with higher health care utilization and costs;
however, no large-scale studies have demonstrated this in the Veterans Health …

Background: Decision-makers and health professionals face challenges in providing quality
medical services while optimizing diminishing resources. Health literacy is associated with …

Amid increased concerns about the adverse consequences of low health literacy, it remains
unclear how health literacy affects health status and health service utilization. Moreover …

The objective of this review was to clarify what health literacy represents. A systematic
review with qualitative syntheses was performed (CRD42017065149). Studies concerning …

Inadequate health literacy, namely the problematic individual's ability to navigate the health
care system, has been depicted as a silent epidemic affecting a large part of the world …