health literacy

From: Chris Brown (c.brown@ballarat.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 19:39:20 EDT


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From: "Chris Brown" <c.brown@ballarat.edu.au>
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Subject: health literacy
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I am a new chum to health literacy and am interested in determining the
extend to which addressing health literacy in individuals is limited by
social factors. That is, how beneficial is improving health literacy when
factors like economic status, housing, access to services etc are still
making life difficult. Are there any key studies that have shown an
improvement in health status by changing only health literacy? At what point
do these other social factors become the main limiting factors?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chris Brown



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