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Ellen Uiters
Researcher at Centre for Health Protection
Publications - 46
Citations - 2773
Ellen Uiters is an academic researcher from Centre for Health Protection. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Health care. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 41 publications receiving 2046 citations.
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Health literacy in Europe: comparative results of the European health literacy survey (HLS-EU)
Kristine Sørensen,Jürgen M. Pelikan,Florian Röthlin,Kristin Ganahl,Zofia Slonska,Gerardine Doyle,James Fullam,Barbara Kondilis,Demosthenes Agrafiotis,Ellen Uiters,María Falcón,M Mensing,Kancho Tchamov,Stephan Van den Broucke,Helmut Brand +14 more
TL;DR: Findings from the first European comparative survey on health literacy in populations suggest the social gradient in health literacy must be taken into account when developing public health strategies to improve health equity in Europe.
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Health literacy of Dutch adults: a cross sectional survey
Iris van der Heide,Jany Rademakers,Maarten Schipper,Mariël Droomers,Kristine Sørensen,Ellen Uiters +5 more
TL;DR: Having a low level of education or a low perceived social status or being male were consistently found to be significantly related to relatively low health literacy scores, mainly for accessing and understanding health information.
Health literacy of Dutch adults: a cross sectional
Iris van der Heide,Jany Rademakers,Maarten Schipper,Mariël Droomers,Kristine Sørensen,Ellen Uiters +5 more
TL;DR: In the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU) 2011 as mentioned in this paper, a questionnaire was administered face-to-face in a sample of 925 Dutch adults, during July 2011.
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Use of health care services by ethnic minorities in The Netherlands
TL;DR: The analysis of patterns of utilisation proved to supply useful information concerning the relationship between ethnicity and use of health care services in addition to figures concerning single service use only.
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Associations Among Health Literacy, Diabetes Knowledge, and Self-Management Behavior in Adults with Diabetes: Results of a Dutch Cross-Sectional Study
Iris van der Heide,Ellen Uiters,Jany Rademakers,Jeroen N. Struijs,A. Jantine Schuit,Caroline A. Baan +5 more
TL;DR: Higher health literacy may contribute to participation in certain self-management activities, in some cases through diabetes knowledge, based on cross-sectional data retrieved from patient registrations and questionnaires completed in 2010.