Section of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
J Health Commun. 2010;15 Suppl 2:34-41. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2010.499994.
Limited health literacy has been linked to worse health outcomes for a range of medical conditions. In addition, limited health literacy is more prevalent among specific racial and ethnic minorities. Although these findings have been widely acknowledged, little systematic research has been conducted to elucidate the role of health literacy in the creation of health disparities or to evaluate the possibility that interventions relating to health literacy may help eliminate health disparities. This paper presents recommendations for a research agenda that is focused on advancing the science for how health literacy research can promote the effort to eliminate health disparities.
健康素养有限与一系列医疗状况的健康结果较差有关。此外，特定的少数族裔中健康素养有限的情况更为普遍。尽管这些发现已被广泛认可，但很少有系统的研究来阐明健康素养在造成健康差距方面的作用，也很少有研究评估与健康素养相关的干预措施是否可能有助于消除健康差距。本文提出了研究议程的建议，重点是推进健康素养研究如何促进消除健康差距的努力。
