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Christian von Wagner
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 165
Citations - 6459
Christian von Wagner is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cancer screening. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 149 publications receiving 5266 citations. Previous affiliations of Christian von Wagner include University College Hospital.
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Functional health literacy and health-promoting behaviour in a national sample of British adults.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the prevalence of limited functional health literacy in the UK, and examined associations with health behaviours and self-rated health, and found that 11.4% of participants had either marginal or inadequate health literacy.
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Outcomes of the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) in England after the first 1 million tests
Richard F A Logan,Julietta Patnick,Claire Nickerson,L Coleman,Matthew D. Rutter,Christian von Wagner +5 more
TL;DR: Although there was the expected improvement in cancer stage at diagnosis, the proportion with left-sided cancers was higher than expected and uptake and fecal occult blood test positivity was in line with that from the pilot and the original European trials.
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Health Literacy and Health Actions: A Review and a Framework From Health Psychology:
TL;DR: A framework drawing on ideas from health psychology and proposing that associations between health literacy and health outcomes could be mediated by a range of health actions involving access and use of health care, patient—provider interactions, and the management of health and illness is introduced.
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Inequalities in participation in an organized national colorectal cancer screening programme: results from the first 2.6 million invitations in England
Christian von Wagner,Gianluca Baio,Rosalind Raine,Julia Snowball,Stephen Morris,Wendy Atkin,Austin Obichere,Graham Handley,Richard F A Logan,Sandra Rainbow,Stephen Smith,Stephen P Halloran,Jane Wardle +12 more
TL;DR: Overall uptake rates in this organized screening programme were encouraging, but nonetheless there was low uptake in the most ethnically diverse areas and a striking gradient by SES, with stronger effects in women and older people.
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Health literacy and self-efficacy for participating in colorectal cancer screening: The role of information processing
TL;DR: Lower health literacy had a direct impact on information-seeking and was also independently associated with perceived confidence to participate in screening.