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Health Literacy and Health Outcomes in Diabetes: A Systematic Review

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There is little sufficient or consistent evidence suggesting that it is independently associated with processes or outcomes of diabetes-related care, and it may be premature to routinely screen for low health literacy as a means for improving diabetes- related health-related outcomes.
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BACKGROUND Low health literacy is considered a potential barrier to improving health outcomes in people with diabetes and other chronic conditions, although the evidence has not been previously systematically reviewed.

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Health Literacy and Child Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Literature

TL;DR: Child and parent literacy seems associated with important health outcomes, and interventions found that improving written materials can increase health knowledge, and combining good written materials with brief counseling can improve behaviors including adherence.
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Functional health literacy and the quality of physician-patient communication among diabetes patients.

TL;DR: Poor FHL appears to be a marker for oral communication problems, particularly in the technical, explanatory domains of clinician-patient dialogue, in patients with poor functional health literacy.
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Measuring Functional, Communicative, and Critical Health Literacy Among Diabetic Patients

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