Importance of Adult Literacy in Understanding Health Disparities

This article by Sentell & Halpin (2006) describes a study with the objective of understanding the effect of adult literacy on the explanatory power of education and race in predicting health status among U.S. adults. The researchers find that literacy inequity may be an important factor in health disparities.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831569/

adults, disparities, education, ethnicity, literacy, race, research, United States

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