Health Literacy

"Health Literacy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

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Degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.

Descriptor ID	D057220
MeSH Number(s)	I02.233.332.186.500 L01.143.450.500 N02.421.726.407.229.500
Concept/Terms	Health Literacy Health Literacy Literacy, Health

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Health Literacy".

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Education [I02]
Education, Nonprofessional [I02.233]
Health Education [I02.233.332]
Consumer Health Information [I02.233.332.186]
Health Literacy [I02.233.332.186.500]
Information Science [L]
Information Science [L01]
Communication [L01.143]
Information Literacy [L01.143.450]
Health Literacy [L01.143.450.500]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services [N02]
Health Services [N02.421]
Preventive Health Services [N02.421.726]
Health Education [N02.421.726.407]
Consumer Health Information [N02.421.726.407.229]
Health Literacy [N02.421.726.407.229.500]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Health Literacy".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Health Literacy".

publications

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Literacy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Literacy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 50 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2017

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2009	1	0	1
2012	4	0	4
2013	5	2	7
2014	3	0	3
2015	6	0	6
2016	5	0	5
2017	6	4	10
2018	1	1	2
2019	1	2	3
2020	1	2	3
2021	1	0	1
2022	1	0	1
2023	2	0	2
2024	0	2	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Literacy" by people in Profiles.

Shah YB, Ghosh A, Hochberg A, Mark JR, Lallas CD, Shah MS. Artificial intelligence improves urologic oncology patient education and counseling. Can J Urol. 2024 Oct; 31(5):12013-12018.

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Pohl NB, Derector E, Rivlin M, Bachoura A, Tosti R, Kachooei AR, Beredjiklian PK, Fletcher DJ. A quality and readability comparison of artificial intelligence and popular health website education materials for common hand surgery procedures. Hand Surg Rehabil. 2024 06; 43(3):101723.

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Issa TZ, Lee Y, Mazmudar AS, Lambrechts MJ, Sellig M, Hilibrand AS, Vaccaro AR, Schroeder GD, Kepler CK. Readability of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Spine Surgery and Implications for Health Literacy. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2024 Jun 01; 49(11):811-817.

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Momenaei B, Wakabayashi T, Shahlaee A, Durrani AF, Pandit SA, Wang K, Mansour HA, Abishek RM, Xu D, Sridhar J, Yonekawa Y, Kuriyan AE. Appropriateness and Readability of ChatGPT-4-Generated Responses for Surgical Treatment of Retinal Diseases. Ophthalmol Retina. 2023 10; 7(10):862-868.

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Griffeth E, Sharif I, Caldwell A, Townsend Cooper M, Tyrrell H, Dunlap M. Health Literacy Perceptions and Knowledge in Pediatric Continuity Practices. Health Lit Res Pract. 2022 01; 6(1):e51-e60.

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Zakar R, Iqbal S, Zakar MZ, Fischer F. COVID-19 and Health Information Seeking Behavior: Digital Health Literacy Survey amongst University Students in Pakistan. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 04 11; 18(8).

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Para A, Thelmo F, Rynecki ND, Zelman B, Gupta R, Coban D, Ayyaswami V, Prabhu AV, Ippolito JA, Agarwal N, Moore JM, Beebe KS. Evaluating the Readability of Online Patient Education Materials Related to Orthopedic Oncology. Orthopedics. 2021 Jan 01; 44(1):38-42.

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Kamath P, Zheng R, Narasimman M, Ayyaswami V, Prabhu AV, Hansberry D, Agarwal N, Koch E. Evaluation of online patient education materials concerning skin cancers. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2021 Jan; 84(1):190-191.

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Agarwal N, Funahashi R, Taylor T, Jorge A, Feroze R, Zhou J, Hansberry DR, Gross BA, Jankowitz BT, Friedlander RM. Patient Education and Engagement Through Multimedia: A Prospective Pilot Study on Health Literacy in Patients with Cerebral Aneurysms. World Neurosurg. 2020 06; 138:e819-e826.

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Ladd IG, Gogoi RP, Bogaczyk TL, Larson SL. Cervical Cancer Patients' Willingness and Ability to Serve as Health Care Educators to Advocate for Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Uptake. J Cancer Educ. 2019 06; 34(3):608-613.

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