"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.
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
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I02.233.332.186.500 L01.143.450.500 N02.421.726.407.229.500
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Health Literacy".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Health Literacy".
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.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2012 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Literacy" by people in Profiles.
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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 Nov 01; 31(11):2429-2439.
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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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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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St?hl C, Karlsson E, Wenemark M, Sandqvist J, ?restedt K. The Social Insurance Literacy Questionnaire (SILQ): Development and Psychometric Evaluation. J Occup Rehabil. 2024 Sep; 34(3):693-706.
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Lalor JP, Wu H, Mazor KM, Yu H. Evaluating the efficacy of NoteAid on EHR note comprehension among US Veterans through Amazon Mechanical Turk. Int J Med Inform. 2023 04; 172:105006.
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Garland ME, Lukac D, Contreras P. A Brief Report: Comparative Evaluation of Online Spanish and English Content on Pancreatic Cancer Treatment. J Cancer Educ. 2023 04; 38(2):664-668.
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Morris NS, Nnaji C, Sarkis M. "Was Test Designed for Africans?" Health Literacy and African Immigrants. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2022 02; 9(1):315-324.