The authors concluded that informational interventions, in conjunction with professional advice, can improve people's health literacy: effects include improvement in health knowledge and recall, reduced anxiety, improved symptom management, and an increased sense of empowerment.
When conditioning for all demographics only education remains significant but when further controlling for financial literacy the effect of education is reduced.
Further research directly evaluating process variables such as health literacy, the effects of gain-framing vs loss-framing, and the importance of GP's recommendations for bowel cancer screening are required.
In LMICs, female literacy has more effect on IMR and U5MR than on MMR, as a mother's behavior has a more pronounced effect on her child's health [ 7].
It uses the existing measures, but adds criteria such as graduation rates, adult literacy and the effect of years in school on productivity.This method does not change the picture at the top: Finland, South Korea and Hong Kong shine as usual, followed by Japan and Singapore.
To date, no study has assessed health literacy and its effect on CAM use.
To this effect, literacy was selected as a target for the Millennium Development Goals by the WHO and UN [ 11, 18, 19].
However, the increasing maternal mortality in the 1990s was not mirrored by declining female literacy, and the effect of literacy on MMR may follow a significant time lag enough for other changes intermediate to reduced MMR to manifest.
A French cognitive scientist explains the phenomenon of literacy and its effects on the mind.
