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"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 66 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2012

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2010	2	1	3
2011	4	1	5
2012	9	0	9
2013	4	1	5
2014	1	0	1
2015	2	2	4
2016	1	3	4
2017	2	1	3
2018	4	2	6
2019	2	3	5
2020	3	2	5
2021	1	1	2
2022	1	0	1
2023	2	1	3
2024	5	3	8
2026	1	1	2

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

Kramer KZ, Kotagal M. Post Hospital Surgical Disparities. Surg Clin North Am. 2026 Jun; 106(3):403-410.

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Yakdan S, Joseph K, Poulin N, Arkam F, Moniz Garcia D, Cadieux M, Neuman B, Goodin BR, Godzik J, Steinmetz MP, Bydon M, Ghogawala Z, Hafez D, Ray WZ, Greenberg JK. Disparities in quality of life and health literacy among patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy: the influence of racial and ethnic factors in the All of Us Research Program. J Neurosurg Spine. 2026 Apr 03; 44(6):920-929.

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Yerram P, Edwards D, Norris KC, Molony D, Kalantar-Zadeh K, Landry DL. Practicing health equity in kidney care by establishing improved access to timely disease management and kidney replacement therapy options: from providers to patients. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. 2025 Jan 01; 34(1):48-54.

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Marquard J, Austin R, Rajamani S. Design of patient-facing immunization visualizations affects task performance: an experimental comparison of 4 electronic visualizations. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2024 11 01; 31(11):2429-2439.

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Hoadley A, Fleisher L, Kenny C, Kelly PJ, Ma X, Wu J, Guerra C, Leader AE, Alhajji M, D'Avanzo P, Landau Z, Bass SB. Exploring Racial Disparities in Awareness and Perceptions of Oncology Clinical Trials: Cross-Sectional Analysis of Baseline Data From the mychoice Study. JMIR Cancer. 2024 09 30; 10:e56048.

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Bustamante-Troncoso C, Alcayaga-Rojas C, Reyes HS, Ewert JCP, Hern?ndez GR, Acu?a MR, Campos-Romero S, Rosal MC. [Health Literacy and Metabolic Control in Individuals Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial]. Rev Med Chil. 2024 Sep; 152(9):969-977.

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Park KU, Lipsitz S, Dominici LS, Lynce F, Minami CA, Nakhlis F, Waks AG, Warren LE, Eidman N, Frazier J, Hernandez L, Leslie C, Rafte S, Stroud D, Weissman JS, King TA, Mittendorf EA. Generative artificial intelligence as a source of breast cancer information for patients: Proceed with caution. Cancer. 2025 Jan 01; 131(1):e35521.

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Rodler S, Maruccia S, Abreu A, Murphy D, Canes D, Loeb S, Malik RD, Bagrodia A, Cacciamani GE. Readability Assessment of Patient Education Materials on Uro-oncological Diseases Using Automated Measures. Eur Urol Focus. 2024 Dec; 10(6):1055-1061.

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Sethares KA, Westlake C, Viveiros JD, Elliott K. Correlation of health literacy and learning style preference in persons with heart failure. Patient Educ Couns. 2024 Oct; 127:108367.

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Rudin LR, Tetreault L, Xu R, Bauer KW, Pagoto SL, Duffy VB, Libby BA, Pham J, Waring ME. Sources and perceived credibility of child nutrition information in relation to maternal health literacy. Patient Educ Couns. 2024 Jun; 123:108199.

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